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.

“A large part of Guatemala’s justice system has ... get more cash transfers and benefits when she was first lady alongside former President Álvaro Colom, say analysts. Despite heading one ...

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.

became Guatemala's first democratically-elected president. This decade established the bedrock of Guatemalan democracy and molded the country's ambitions. Later governments tried to suppress its ...

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.

Four years ago, when Alejandro Giammattei was elected president of Guatemala, immigrants living in the United States were able to vote for the first time. In that experimental election ...