Myrna Mack's Daughter Appointed Guatemala Health Minister

Myrna Mack's Daughter Appointed Guatemala Health Minister
Published 27 July 2016 (12 hours 13 minutes ago)

Guatemala's newest minister marks a break from the country's political elite as she is a self-described leftist.

In a surprising move, Guatemala’s military brass-linked president’s new health minister is the daughter of Myrna Mack, an anthropologist assassinated by a death squad in 1990 for speaking out against the military’s human rights abuses during the country’s civil war.

The new minister, Lucrecia Hernandez Mack, also breaks with the mold of the Central American nation’s typical political leaders. As the daughter of an assassination victim in the final years of Guatemala’s brutal 36-year civil war, Hernandez Mack could have a keen eye to the legacy of the country’s history in present-day systemic problems.

“It’s an enormous challenge to take on a portfolio like Health, which is complex and complicated and inherits a number of historical and economic problems,” Hernandez Mack said after being sworn in as minister.

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