Good evening. Tonight in the show, I have a very good conversation with my colleagues,

Joseph Umair and Ernesto Arauzo about the election results so far in the Americas. We're looking at

two countries, small countries, Guatemala and Ecuador, as representative of democracy,

under stress, slipping away, changing into something that looks like democracy from the outside,

but is predetermined to be in the hands of the bosses. There's a left lean in Latin America. It's

happened before. The clothing at the rose tide this time, the pink tide. However, it follows a model

that was established some years ago by, well, the Castro brothers before, but Chavez in Venezuela,

one man, one vote, one time, and then once you consolidate power, usually based on a

vivid and charismatic populist message, you change the constitution so that there is no second

vote or no opportunity to challenge. The re-election campaign then gets incorporated into the regime,

into the executive branch, the legislative branch, retreats, or is taken over by the same

parties that run the executive branch. We've seen it in Venezuela. We've seen the model also work

very effectively in smaller states such as Guatemala and Honduras. Those states are troubled by

narcoterism as well. Right now, we're watching it in Guatemala again, but this time,

an anti-corruption candidate, really from out of nowhere in the first round of voting,

Aravalo, is now seen as challenging the elite of Guatemala City, represented by Sandra Torres.

The trouble here is that Aravalo comes from a party that was fraudulently

posted. Its signatures endorsing it were challenged in court and seen as many of them fake,

and it will be hung up in the court's legislative body remains in the hands of the opposition.

So Guatemala is very unlikely to see a revelation of anything, any change,

whatsoever. This is more obvious in Ecuador, where, after the assassination of Villabencensio,

the party that dominates, raised represented by a former president, Korea, who is under

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