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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Bookish, bearded and bespectacled, Mr. Arévalo seems an unlikely candidate to take down the pacto de corruptos; but his father, Juan José Arévalo, was Guatemala’s first democratic president ...

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.

But in longer meetings with Harris, Arévalo said he told her Guatemala needs ... the late former Guatemalan president Juan José Arévalo, who was the country's first democratically elected ...

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 ...