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#NewWorldReport: Guatemala election faught. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#NewWorldReport: Guatemala election faught. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/guatemalas-presidential-frontrunner-thrown-off-ballot-promises-appeal-2023-05-20/

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This is the New World Report. I'm John Datshe with Professor Evan Ellis of the US Army War College.

0:39.0

You go to Guatemala, which is part of the Northern Triangle.

0:43.0

It's part of the Northern Triangle that is said to be hospitable to the US.

0:47.0

You will remember the Vice President Harris visited Guatemala City early in the administration

0:53.0

when the first flash of migration crisis at the border came across the news.

1:00.0

Now we have a headline in Guatemala that sounds disorienting.

1:05.0

With barely a month to go before Guatemala and voters go to the polls, this is Reuters reporting.

1:10.0

To pick a new president, a judge suspended the canister of Frontrunner Carlos Pignada

1:16.0

in a ruling swiftly denounced as undemocratic by the businessman outsider.

1:21.0

Professor, this sounds like a topsy-turvy election. What's happened?

1:25.0

Well, John, to put this in context, one of the criticisms or one of the concerns over the Guatemala regime.

1:32.0

Guatemala has long had a conservative elite which dominates politics.

1:36.0

And there's been some accusations by the Biden administration.

1:39.0

Certainly that the current regime of the president, GMAT, has been using control of the Attorney General's office at Tel Medana,

1:47.0

control of other entities to basically maintain that power and manipulate things.

1:54.0

So Guatemala is currently facing an election, very close in right now.

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