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

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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#NewWorldReport: Guatemala election in jeopardy. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-urges-guatemala-ensure-no-interference-election-after-raid-2023-07-24/


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The New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis, the Latin American Research Professor

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at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.

0:42.0

The big election in Europe these last days was in Spain where there's a tie and the likelihood

0:49.0

because no one party commands the majority is that there will be a follow-on election, very straightforward parliamentary politics.

0:57.0

In Latin America, the mother country is not inspiring similar stability because after the first round of elections

1:06.0

we have a lot of debate and right now in Guatemala there's something more than debate.

1:12.0

And I welcome the professor to help me follow this extremely fast-changing story.

1:18.0

The first round delivered two candidates, one expected. Her name is Sandra Torres.

1:25.0

She's the wife of a former president, so the elite of Guatemala City.

1:30.0

This is well to do families all knowing each other.

1:35.0

The surprise was a man named Aravalo who represents a new party, Semina.

1:41.0

And he speaks, I can outsider, protesting corruption, talking about how he'll clean things up and reform.

1:49.0

Now what is striking is the big winner in the first round was none of the above.

1:54.0

The spur ballots or people refusing to vote at all for the two leading candidates

2:01.0

and voting for their rejection of the process and their choices.

2:07.0

You will remember that the leading candidate in the polls some time ago was removed by order of the courts.

2:14.0

So what we're looking at is a process that wasn't comfortable as it started the first round.

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