Guatemala Solidarity Network

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• “If I win the presidency there will be efforts to stop the transfer of power”

  By kevodell on August 16, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on August 16, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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”

  By kevodell on August 11, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on August 11, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on August 11, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on July 7, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on July 7, 2023 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• ‘Feminicide, Impunity, and the United States in Guatemala’ with Victoria Sanford

  By kevodell on July 7, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Cyril Mychalejko talks to Victoria Sanford on The Signal podcast by The Bucks County Beacon, an independent media outlet out of Pennsylvania. The discussion is rooted in Dr Sanford’s new book, Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez… Read More ›

• Vamos: The Fight to Stay in the Game

  By kevodell on June 23, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Alex Papadovassilakis writes in InSight Crime on President Alejandro Giammattei, who is soon to see his term come to an end, if the ramos, the political party or, more correctly, the political bloc, which has effectively wielded power and favour… Read More ›

• ‘Simulation of democracy’: Guatemala readies for election amid concerns of manipulation

  By kevodell on June 23, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Candidates have been disqualified on spurious grounds as experts warn of country backsliding into autocracy Nina Lakhani and Jody García write in The Guardian about the manipulation and corruption being carried out prior to this weekend’s presidential elections in Guatemala…. Read More ›

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