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To challenge the authority of the establishment and one, his name is Aravalo, Bernardo Aravalo.

There are reports of threats to his life.

There are reports of outside organizations requesting more security for him in this interim before he's inaugurated.

There are also reports that there are repeated efforts to block him or at least slow him down.

Reuters is reporting that Guatemala Supreme Electoral Tribunal ratified the victory of Bernardo Aravalo.

At the same time, having won the August 22nd round, there are questions about his party, Samia,

that may have represented itself fraudulently in registering the vote.

Professors, shall we regard Guatemala as at risk?

How do you measure these rumors of assassins and rumors of the courts blocking Samia?

And that undermining the authority of the new president-elect?

Well, John, there's certainly a number of different factors coming together here.

And I think there's a lot of uncertainty, especially remembering that Aravalo has about five months before he actually is inaugurated.

And a whole lot can happen in five months.

So on the one hand, as we've talked about on this program for you have the established elites who are worried about the change or the challenges that his anti-corruption push would represent to some of their interest in the status quo.

And some who are worried about the possibilities also that his ties to the left could bring in a new type of radical leftism, not through him, but through the people who would come in through him, something that always has generated a lot of concern within deeply conservative Guatemala.

And so in the context of those fears that we've seen this kind of law fair against anybody who would threaten the status quo.

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