The Guatemalan journalist will stay out of prison. However, he remains under house arrest for a conviction that many have described as “persecution of press freedom”.

In a case that many have described as political persecution and an attempt at destabilization, the Semilla party filed a writ of amparo and hoped to reverse the decision of the Prosecutor’s Office, a fierce opponent of Arévalo’s progressive government.

The case against the investigative journalist has been labeled by many as a politically motivated act of persecution and violation of freedom of press.

The Attorney General’s Office has accused President Bernardo Arévalo of corruption and other crimes. Many see these accusations as a form of political persecution against the first progressive president in more than 40 years in the Central American country.

Attempt to weaken the new president’s parliamentary group backfires as his Semilla party assumes presidency of Congress

The Prosecutor’s Office called for the past elections to be annulled due to alleged administrative irregularities of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal

Indigenous communities in the country have been on a national strike since October 2 amid actions by the judiciary and the right-wing to undermine democracy and the electoral process

The announcement came after the State Attorney General’s Office raided electoral facilities and opened ballot boxes of the June elections in which Arévalo had pulled ahead of the candidates acceptable to the establishment and advanced to the August run-off

Bernardo Arévalo de León of the center-left Movimiento Semilla won a decisive victory over Sandra Torres of the center-right National Unity of Hope (UNE). Arévalo’s victory was the culmination of a people’s campaign against the “pact of the corrupt”

The contradictory announcements intensified weeks of uncertainty over the possibility of a run-off vote between Sandra Torres and Bernardo Arévalo

Indigenous Guatemalan leader Carlos Barrientos Aragón reflects on the crisis that has unfolded in the country following the elections

On August 20, the people of Guatemala will choose between former first lady Sandra Torres and sociologist Bernardo Arévalo