nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200428-164944-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200428s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200428-164944-0 doi eng 342 23 Gonzalez, José Author aut Challenges Beyond Public Health – Guatemala and the Covid-19 Crisis Gonzalez, José Verfassungsblog 2020-04-28 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Due to its violent past of a 36 year-long internal armed conflict and the scourge of corruption, the COVID-19 pandemic presents to Guatemala great challenges that goes beyond ensuring healthcare to its population. The excessive use of imprisonment in the enforcement of sanitary measures, the protection of detained persons, ensuring the effective implementation of financial assistance programs, achieving accountability of public servants during the crisis, and the reactivation of the judiciary are some of the issues that demands a proper answer from the Guatemalan state. This post analyzes the “emergency state” implemented in Guatemala and presents some of the measures and effects related to the current crisis. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Coronavirus COVID 19 emergency powers Guatemala Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/challenges-beyond-public-health-guatemala-and-the-covid-19-crisis/ raw object