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Weekly Report - 18 April 2024 (WR-24-15)
GUATEMALA: Arévalo challenged by congress
Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo has encountered one of his first major challenges from the legislature since taking office mid-January after it blocked a 30-day state of calamity that he decreed in response to forest fires. The move by the 160-member unicameral congress, which is largely aligned with the ‘pacto de corruptos’ network of institutional corruption which Arévalo had pledged to tackle, deals a setback to the new president, whose hand in congress has already been weakened by the dubious decision upheld in February by the constitutional court (CC), which suspended his left-of-centre Movimiento Semilla (Semilla).
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