USA adopted measures on Monday to impose visa restrictions on nearly 300 Guatemalan citizens, including 100 members of Congress, whom it accuses of undermining democracy and the rule of law in the Central American country. Guatemala’s president-elect Bernardo Arévalo on Friday forcefully rejected a legal maneuver by local prosecutors to invalidate his electoral victory, calling […]
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Guatemalan Prosecutor’s Office proposes annulling elections and the OAS warns of an “attempted coup”
Guatemalan prosecutors once again attacked the results of the past general elections and asked a court to withdraw the immunity of President-elect Bernardo Arévalo, pointing out that there could be enough irregularities to annul the electoral results, a measure that the Organization of American States condemned as “an attempted coup” in the Central American nation. […]
With increasingly scarce rains, Guatemalans learn to use every drop
In the village of San Pablo Las Delicias, in the north of GuatemalaMaría Baten cries for the lack of rain. “I don’t have water, I don’t have anything”says this mother of five children in the Mayan language, while wiping away tears. The drought threatens a food crisis in this area of Guatemala where the indigenous […]
Guatemala: Electoral Tribunal Suspends Disqualification of Arévalo’s Party
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Guatemala (TSE) temporarily lifted this Sunday the disqualification of the President-elect’s Seed party Bernardo Arevalo until October 31, once the current election process is formally over. The party was disqualified on August 28 by the Citizens’ Registry (electoral register), for complying with a controversial court order, which prevented Semilla from […]
The Guatemalan Congress ignores the party of the president-elect
The Congress of Guatemala ignored this Wednesday the bench of the Seed Movement, the president-elect, Bernardo Arevalo de Leonby order of a criminal judge. The five representatives of the Seed Movement, including Arévalo de León, were declared as “independents”, due to the decision of the board of directors of the Guatemalan legislature, chaired by Shirley […]
Arévalo, the president who promises to eliminate corruption in Guatemala
In 1954, a military coup overthrew the then president of Guatemala Jacobo Árbenz truncating the “democratic spring”, one of the most flourishing periods of the Central American country. The maneuver, supported by the CIA, forced his predecessor, Juan José Arévalo, to go into exile in Uruguay along with his family. Even before he was born, […]
Peru congratulates Bernardo Arévalo and hopes to strengthen its ties with Guatemala
Peru congratulated this Monday the president-elect of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo de León, winner of the elections this Sunday in the Central American country, and expressed its desire to continue strengthening the ties of friendship between the two countries. “Peru congratulates the President-elect of the Republic of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo de León, for his victory in […]
Guatemalans elect president among candidates of opposite poles
After a tumultuous campaign, Guatemalans went to the polls on Sunday to elect their president and vice president for the next four years in the Central American nation, between an anti-corruption advocate and a former first lady seen as an ally of the outgoing government. The second round election is one of the most observed […]
Five keys to understanding the second electoral round in Guatemala
Guatemala will carry out this Sunday the second round of its electoral process to decide who will be its next president, the former first lady Sandra Torres Casanova or the academic Bernardo Arévalo de León. Here are five keys to fully understand the controversial electoral process in Guatemala and its different protagonists. The surprise candidate: […]
In the last year, the arrival of Venezuelan migrants to the southern border of Mexico increased 150%
The flow of Venezuelan migrants who arrive at the southern border of Mexicowith the aim of reaching USAincreased 150% in 2022, a percentage that has been sustained in the last three years, said the leader of a promigrantes organization in the state of Chiapas, southeastern Mexico. The director of the Center for Human Dignification (CDH), […]