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 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

José Rubén Zamora Marroquín was arrested in July 2022, which many believe because he exposed several corruption cases and fraudulent businesses of the Alejandro Giammattei government

During the past weeks, three presidential candidates have been barred from running for office. All of them have raised concerns about the possibility of electoral fraud in the June elections

Guatemala’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal has barred progressive candidates Thelma Cabrera and Jordán Rodas of the MLP party from running on dubious grounds