Today, we accept with humility the victory the people of Guatemala gave us.

In a stunning rejection of Guatemala's ruling business and political elite, the progressive

anti-corruption campaigner Bernardo Arevolo has won Guatemala's presidential election in a landslide.

But will he be allowed to take office? Will go to Guatemala City for the latest?

Then to South Africa, where leaders of BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are holding a major summit as the group looks to expand.

I think this summit is going to demonstrate the coming together of the Global South in a show of unity, in a show of strength and in a show of friendship and cooperation.

Will go to British Columbia, where Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is deployed, the military is more than 400 wildfires have forced over 35,000 people to evacuate.

As Canadians are seeing in the horrific images they see of devastation and fear of residents in northwest territories and in BC, it is an extraordinarily serious situation.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the warrant, peace report, I'm Amy Goodman.

In Guatemala, progressive politician Bernardo Arevolo has declared a decisive victory in a presidential runoff election against former First Lady Sandra Torres.

A Revolo, leader of the Simea Party, took nearly 60 percent of the vote Sunday. He's vowed to fight corruption and push for social reforms.

His supporters poured into the streets of Guatemala City to celebrate.

Democracy won. We will be able to dream of a different Guatemala. I hope a little by little we will abolish poverty.

There's new hope for Guatemala. Guatemala is happy and we are telling these corrupt politicians they must respect our vote. Guatemala has already changed.

Bernardo Arevolo is the son of the former president, Juan Jose Arevolo. Guatemala's first democratically elected president to push for revolutionary policies when he was in office from 1945 to 51.

We'll go to Guatemala City for more after headlines.

Ecuadorans also took to the polls Sunday for a SNAP presidential election.

Leftist Luisa Gonzalez took the lead in the first round and will face Danielle Noboa in a runoff election in October is neither candidate one over half the vote on the first round.

Gonzalez is a member of former president Rafael Corea's citizen revolution movement party. Noboa is a businessman whose father Alvaro Noboa is one of Ecuador's wealthiest people.

Alvaro Noboa is a banana industry magnate who previously ran for president has been accused of multiple tax and labor violations. Luisa Gonzalez spoke to supporters Sunday.

We don't want Lasso 2.0. We don't want anybody disconnected from the people's needs because then we would again face a situation in which we would have a president that rules for the companies and not for the needs of Ecuadorians.

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