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Guatemala City (Prensa Latina) No one expected a deep political crisis in Guatemala nor so much uncertainty when the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) made official at the end of January the call to define more than four thousand public posts.
Guatemala City, Dec 7 (EFE) – Guatemala’s president-elect, Bernardo Arévalo, marched Thursday with Indigenous people, politicians from different parties and civil organizations to demand respect for democracy in the face of the Public Ministry’s intention to overturn election results. “Today we are here to demand no more corruption, we want to move towards dignified development …
We are writing, on behalf of Human Rights Watch, to call on the European Union to urgently impose targeted sanctions, whether under its global human rights sanctions regime or an ad-hoc sanctions regime to address interferences with the electoral process in Guatemala. We also urge you to take other actions, detailed below, in response to serious human rights violations and democratic backsliding in the country.
Anti-corruption presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo is heavily favored in polls.
Guatemalan voters defied predictions on June 25 by sending an anti-corruption crusader to runoff elections for the country’s presidency. Bernardo Arévalo, a professorial lawmaker and former diplomat, placed second in a crowded field, earning a place in the final round on August 20 against perennial presidential candidate and former First Lady, Sandra Torres.