The Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) posted recently about how democracy has again been threatened in Guatemala. A judge, at the request of the Public Ministry, declared that President Bernardo Arévalo’s political party, Semilla, was not legally constituted, declared the… Read More ›
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GHRC – Recent Developments in Justice and Human Rights
A recent update from Guatemala Human Rights Commission (GHRC) on justice and human rights contained information on the following: At UN President Arévalo Points to Progress & Admits ChallengesAt a recent speech before the UN General Assembly, President Bernardo Arévalo… Read More ›
“It saddens me that Semilla has been unable to uphold the party’s values”
Yuliana Ramazzini writes in El Faro English of the fracturing of Movimiento Semilla, the party of Bernardo Arévalo, and talks with Social anthropologist Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, a Maya K’iche’ social anthropologist who participated more than a decade ago in… Read More ›
Expanding Her Enemy List, Guatemalan AG Accuses Indigenous Leaders of Terrorism
Two Maya K’iche’ pro-democracy leaders who were key in fending off an electoral coup in 2023 and 2024 have now been arrested and accused of terrorism, including a member of President Bernardo Arévalo’s cabinet. In response, Arévalo and Indigenous authorities… Read More ›
Arévalo’s “Democratic Spring” Polls Below the Nicaraguan Dictatorship
El Faro has presented a short video, scripted by Yuliana Ramazzini and Roman Gressier, on Bernardo Arévalo’s inability to curb criminalisation by the Attorney General and how his communications stumbles compound his inexperience as he struggles to make headway in… Read More ›
Guatemala: A 2025 Snapshot
Emilie Sweigart provides a snapshot for 2025 on Guatemala in Americas Quarterly. Elected on an anti-corruption platform, President Bernardo Arévalo and his center-left Semilla Party (which holds only 23 of the 160 seats in Guatemala’s unicameral Congress) have faced strong… Read More ›
“Arévalo’s every action faces prosecutors’ arbitrary scrutiny”
“Consuelo Porras uses fear, threats and harassment to pursue an anti-democratic agenda. No one is cornered here. If anything, I believe that the MP, with its own actions, demonstrates its desperation and cornering.” Yuliana Ramazzini writes in El Faro English… Read More ›
Attacks on Guatemala’s Anti-Corruption President Growing
Rights Action have reposted a piece by Alex Papadovassilakis that was originally published in InSight Crime. The piece presents a further view on the corruption of the Guatemalan judiciary, starting at the very top, and how it continues to hamper… Read More ›
Inexperience, Lawfare, and Online Image Sway Arévalo’s Decisions
After almost nine months in office, Bernardo Arévalo’s decisions regarding his cabinet have shown that they did not really expect to govern. Yuliana Ramazzini writes in El Faro English on the difficulties that the government of Bernardo Arévalo continues to… Read More ›
Consuelo Porras Stokes Political Turmoil Amid Guatemalan Court Elections
Álvaro Montenegro writes in El Faro English about the extraordinary situation in Guatemala regarding the machinations of the Attorney General in seeking, effectively, to criminalise the President Bernardo Arévalo. He, on the other hand, is trying to have her removed… Read More ›
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