While the results of the election are now known, with a landslide win for Bernardo Arévalo, fears for democracy in Guatemala have not simply gone away as state actors in support of corruption remain powerful. Jody García wrote in The… Read More ›
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US, Canada-Backed Guatemalan Elites Threaten Coup Amid Opposition Party Runoff
Grahame Russell and Michael Bakal write in Truthout,prior to the elections, on the fears and uncertainties revolving around an election which harnesses hope in the struggle against the corrupt elites, and those who facilitate them. These fears and uncertainties are… Read More ›
A Turning Point in Guatemalan History: Bernardo Arévalo Wins in Landslide Rejection of Ruling Elite
As news spread of the victory of Bernardo Aŕevalo in the presidential election runoff at the weekend by, what many consider, a landslide, Democracy Now had a piece featuring activist and award-winning investigative journalist, Allan Nairn, and Frank LaRue, Guatemalan… Read More ›
“If I win the presidency there will be efforts to stop the transfer of power”
José Luis Sanz writes in El Faro about the fears that Bernardo Arévalo holds if he wins the upcoming run-off in the Guatemala presidential election. It is well known that dark forces collude in violence and corruption to destabilise the… Read More ›
NPR: Democracy under threat in Guatemala
Eyder Peralta recently hosted, on NPR, a couple of interviews with prominent Guatemalans on that country’s current democratic crisis with the upcoming second round of the presidential elections on the horizon. He talks with Yassmín Barrios, the judge who passed… Read More ›
Bernardo Arévalo: “The corrupt are afraid of the will of the people”
Rights Action has been providing regular updates on the ongoing machinations currently plaguing Guatemala as it heads towards the second round run-off in the Presidential elections. Under the heading of Guatemala Election Watch, regular posts have included translated pieces from… Read More ›
Criminal Court Intervenes in Guatemalan Election Five Weeks before Run-Off
Roman Gressier and Julie López write in El Faro about the State’s attempt to discredit the results of the first round of the presidential, the Movimiento Semilla party and the second place candidate who should go on to contest the… Read More ›
Five Things to Know About the Guatemalan Elections
Shortly after the results of the presidential election election in Guatemala became known and attempts had already started to discredit and ban the Semilla Party from the second round run-off, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) published a piece… Read More ›
If the Election Deniers Succeed, Guatemala Will Have Lost the Battle for Democracy
Anita Isaacs, Rachel A. Schwartz and Álvaro Montenegro have written an Opinion piece in The New York Times on the battle for democracy that faces Guatemala in the wake of the recent Presidential election. Guatemala’s democracy is under assault. Over… Read More ›
Pre- and Post-Election Machinations in Guatemala
Despite widespread attempts to manipulate the electoral system in favour of candidates alligned to agents of corruption (Los Corruptos), the Guatemala Presidential election threw up a major surprise. The two frontrunners turned out to be Sandra Torres, a former First-Lady… Read More ›
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