#Guatemala: The leading party likely fraudulent for Sunday's final vote for the presidency. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion
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🗓️ 18 August 2023
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#Guatemala: The leading party likely fraudulent for Sunday's final vote for the presidency. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJOpinion.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-does-putins-dirty-work-in-guatemala-russia-arrest-democracy-corrupt-populist-semilla-dda75c6b
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Batcher. Within hours, Guatemala, member of the |
| 0:09.9 | Northern Triangle, votes for a new president. The outsider who looks to be in a |
| 0:15.2 | strong position is named Aravalo representing a party, a new party, Simea. He |
| 0:20.8 | surprised everybody in the preliminaries to become the second place and it's a |
| 0:26.2 | runoff. Aravalo is linked in some fashion to old business in Guatemala and I |
| 0:32.0 | welcome Mary and St. Joe Gradier, the America's column in the editor of the |
| 0:36.3 | editor of the Wall Street Journal, to explain Aravalo and Seasig and the |
| 0:41.7 | risk to a family called the Bitcoffs. Mary, good evening to you. Well, good |
| 0:46.1 | evening, John. Yes, Bernardo, Aravalo, looks to be the favorite candidate for the |
| 0:51.9 | Sunday runoff. He may even win by a wide margin if the polls are correct, but |
| 0:57.9 | polls have been very unreliable. Last time around, so I think everybody's just |
| 1:03.7 | in a wait and see mode. The reason why the Aravalo |
| 1:09.8 | candidacy is troubling for a Russian family that is still stuck in Guatemala |
| 1:16.2 | after years of fighting the law there is that they were put in jail by a |
| 1:23.7 | combination of very corrupt attorney general and a UN body that was called the |
| 1:32.0 | Commission against impunity in Guatemala that is the initials are Seasig and |
| 1:38.7 | this was a body that was in Guatemala for about 10 years. When it first was |
| 1:43.6 | brought there, it was it was going to stay for two years. It was supposed to |
| 1:47.3 | help the Guatemalan justice system fight clandestine security groups |
| 1:53.4 | underground security groups that were wreaking havoc with law and order. But |
| 1:59.8 | every two years its mandate was renewed and eventually a new commissioner from |
| 2:04.8 | Columbia was brought to the country in around 2014. And he began to see that |
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