![]() ![]() In the month since that initial result, the Attorney General’s Office announced an investigation into his party and had a judge suspend its legal status until the Constitutional Court stepped in to block that move. But his anti-corruption message resonated in the country where gains against corruption have been erased and the justice system reoriented to pursue the prosecutors and judges who formerly led that fight. In the days before the June 25 vote, he was polling below 3% and trailing at least seven of the other 21 candidates. They warn that the progressive candidate will bring expropriations, abortion and same-sex marriage to the conservative country.Īrévalo has been the election’s surprise. Opponents have tried to frame Arévalo’s candidacy as a step toward some of the region’s more notorious leftist regimes, such as Cuba and Nicaragua. From La Aurora International airport, you can reach Ciudad de Guatemala in just 20 minutes by car, and the charming colonial city of Antigua, with its cobbled streets and a chocolate museum near the Pacaya volcano, after a 56-minute drive from the terminal. ![]() If his father was good, Arévalo could be a good president, too, she said. “I remember I was little and (my parents) said he had done good things,” said Orón whose first language as a child was Kaqchikel. ![]()
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