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#NewWorldReport: Guatemala election interrupted; Peru disrupted by crime. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#NewWorldReport: Guatemala election interrupted; Peru disrupted by crime. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-calls-end-intimidation-efforts-guatemala-ahead-presidential-transition-2023-09-19/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-declares-state-emergency-parts-capital-after-crime-spike-2023-09-18/


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This is a new world report with Professor Evan Ellis of the US Army War College

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Strategic Studies Institute, two countries that have gone through elections and then disorder.

0:29.8

Most recently, Guatemala, the President-elect, Aravalo, is now at some point at odds with the

0:39.0

people who are administering, which is to have to say, regulation about the election,

0:45.2

because he was sponsored by a party that is under investigation as using fraudulent documents

0:51.5

to register itself. Aravalo, who is the son of a previous President, has said he's stepping

0:58.8

away from joining in the transition talks with the now-serving President because of doubts about

1:05.3

how his election is being challenged as legitimate. Professor the US is protesting, or let's put it

1:12.3

this way. The US is recommending that Guatemala not interrupt the steps towards putting Mr. Aravalo

1:21.0

in the policy. Is that helpful that the US speaks out, or is that used as leverage for the opponents?

1:30.2

Well, I think it's certainly helpful, although there are some important strategic questions

1:34.0

to be raised. As you know, John, we've talked about in recent weeks, this is an ongoing story

1:38.4

that all throughout this electoral cycle from the exclusion of candidates that were seen as risky

1:44.5

to the questioning of the election itself, to the disqualification of Aravalo's party,

1:49.3

the semia party, to prevent them from actually taking committee seats and things like that.

1:54.0

And the most recent step, which caused Aravalo to say, that's enough, I'm suspending the transition,

2:01.6

or at least symbolically, which was when there was reports that they had gotten in and opened up

2:07.9

ballot boxes based on, I suppose, a judicial order, creating the opportunity that things could be

2:13.9

put into the ballot boxes or the basis for basically trumped up legal action later.

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