On Monday this week, the Prime Minister reassured the nation that the immediate danger with Guatemala had passed. This was after he met with President Jimmy Morales on Friday and they both agreed to de-escalate tensions after the deployment of troops to the border. But in that same interview with Canal Antigua, Foreign Minister Morales, said that the crisis is not over.
Carlos Morales- Guatemalan Foreign Minister
"Guatemala is very firm. We are not playing around. This matter is extremely serious. We will not let it go by and say, whatever, nothing happened, and we continue like it never happened. The Prime Minister of Belize said yesterday or today, that the situation with Guatemala is over. But no, it is not over. This is a situation pains us that that hurts us. This was a 13-year-old boy, and we cannot tolerate it. I think that this case leaves us with a lot of lessons, and I think that the diplomacy of Guatemala is very clear, we it wants to go. If we know very well that we want to solve the territorial differendum, we cannot continue buying our dead, we cannot continue wasting time. And if we do not want to strengthen the relationship, because the ICJ is the only one in the universe, that can resolve this differendum and can put an end to this. As well we know that we have to strengthen the relations, but not at the cost of Guatemalans."
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