Guatemala City — Guatemala's new President Bernardo Arevalo promised early on Monday to fight corruption and stand firm against global authoritarianism, in his first speech after being sworn in.

Arévalo may be Guatemala’s best hope for democracy. But first the reluctant politician has to take office. The president-elect faces what’s widely seen as a government effort to overturn his ...

Arévalo is the son of Guatemala’s first president, Juan Jose Arévalo, whose nationalistic and progressive policies favored workers and labor unions, as well as Guatemala’s Indigenous population.

The rebels, along with excited citizens of the country, held Guatemala’s first fully free election. Voters elected a man named Juan Jose Arévalo, a teacher, as president—the father of ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Bernardo Arévalo was ... the political panorama in Guatemala," Arévalo said in his first address as president. He summarized his administration's guiding principle as ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Bernardo Arévalo was ... the political panorama in Guatemala,” Arévalo said in his first address as president. Arévalo thanked Guatemala’s youth for not losing hope ...

GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 21 (Reuters ... broke a long period of dictatorship to become the country's first democratically elected president. Juan Jose Arevalo was a reformer whose legacy of social ...

Arévalo is the son of Guatemala’s first democratically elected president, Juan José Arévalo, a center-left politician who led the country from 1945 to 1951. He survived 25 coup attempts.

Arevalo, a 64-year-old sociologist, anti-corruption campaigner and son of former President Juan Jose Arevalo, defied the doubters grabbing a top spot in the first round of Guatemala's presidential ...

Guatemalans have elected Bernardo Arévalo as president ... prosperity and security in Guatemala," Biden said. Arévalo won 58% of the vote to defeat former first lady Sandra Torres, who received ...