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Guatemalan prosecutors are seeking to block the landslide winner of the country's presidential election from taking office, the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) said Tuesday, denouncing the push as a "shameful example for the hemisphere." Luis Almagro, the chief of the Washington-based OAS, called the ongoing investigation by the Guatemalan Attorney General's Office into the party of President-elect Bernardo Arevalo and the electoral authority an unprecedent...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The head of the Organization of American States (OAS) said late on Friday he had accepted an invitation to mediate between

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -The Organization of American States (OAS) on Saturday named the representatives that will lead its mission to mediate between Guatemalan officials and street protesters seeking an orderly transfer to power to President-elect Bernardo Arevalo, according to a statement published on social media site X. OAS head Luis Almagro previously said late on Friday that he accepted the invitation from Guatemala's government that asked to achieve "consensus among different ...

The head of the Organization of American States (OAS) said late on Friday he had accepted an invitation to mediate between Guatemalan officials and street protesters seeking an orderly transfer to power to President-elect Bernardo Arevalo. In a post on social media, OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro said he accepted the invitation from Guatemala's government, posting a letter from the foreign ministry dated Friday that described the invitation as a means to achieve "consensus among d...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Guatemala's government restarted its presidential transition with representatives of President-elect Bernardo Arevalo, who w...

Tens of thousands of Guatemalans marched peacefully on Thursday for the fourth consecutive day, demanding the resignation of powerful senior prosecutors accused of working to undermine President-elect Bernardo Arevalo's ability to take office. The center-left Arevalo was elected in a landslide win in August, but since then Attorney General Consuelo Porras has intensified efforts to disqualify his anti-graft Movimiento Semilla party and ordered raids on the electoral authority's office...

Tens of thousands of Guatemalans marched peacefully on Thursday for the fourth consecutive day, demanding the resignation of powerful senior prosecutors accused of working to undermine... -October 05, 2023 at 05:48 pm EDT - MarketScreener

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Guatemalans marched peacefully on Thursday for the fourth consecutive day, demanding the resignation of powerful senior prosecutors accused of working to undermine President-elect Bernardo Arevalo's ability to take office.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Heavy rains overnight caused a river in Guatemala's capital to flood, killing a young girl and leaving 18 people missing, a...

Guatemala's electoral tribunal said Sunday it had temporarily revoked a suspension order against President-elect Bernardo Arevalo's Semilla party, which had sowed confusion about his victory in the days after the election. It was not immediately clear if Semilla would face the suspension order again after that period. Arevalo, who campaigned on pledges to tackle corruption, resoundingly won the Aug. 20 second-round run-off election.