Guatemala’s elite may try to scupper the presidential election
Could the “pact of the corrupt” deny Bernardo Arévalo the office?
In June Bernardo Arévalo unexpectedly won a place in Guatemala’s presidential run-off. It was a glimmer of hope for the troubled Central American country. Mr Arévalo, the son of Guatemala’s first democratically elected president, is an outsider candidate who ran on an anti-corruption platform. But since then the country’s elite has done its best to block Mr Arévalo from the second round of the election, which takes place on August 20th.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Democracy in doubt”
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