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This is essentially an extremely chaotic two month interval between the first

round of voting and the second round of voting where really until this

round of happened, maybe a little bit earlier, no one could say with certainty

that it would happen and that it would include Simea and Adela. This was really a

display of the establishment using where at least some members in the establishment

using everything in their arsenal to try to stop this runoff from happening and

if it couldn't stop it from happening to stop Adela from winning the election.

I'm Quinted Jurassic, a senior editor at law fair and this is the law fair

podcast, August 28, 2023. On August 20th, Guadalman selected a new president,

Bernardo Arreval. His landslide victory was also a major win for the country's

struggling democracy. An unexpectedly strong candidate who ran on an anti

corruption platform, Arreval of Triumphd despite months of dirty tricks by

institutional actors seeking to preserve the country's status quo.

To discuss Adela's victory, the wild months that led up to it and the challenges

ahead, I talked to Manuel Melendez Sanchez, a peach decanted it in political

science at Harvard University, whose studies emerging challenges to democracy

with a focus on Latin America. As he explained, Guatemala isn't out of the

woods yet, but in a moment of worldwide anxiety over democratic backsliding,

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