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Economy & Business - October 2023
GUATEMALA: Arévalo’s anti-corruption platform
The remarkable victory in Guatemala’s 20 August presidential run-off of anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arévalo and his left-of-centre Movimiento Semilla (Semilla) has left many hopeful of a reversal of the backsliding in anti-impunity efforts which has ensued under outgoing President Alejandro Giammattei and his predecessors. Here we consider both the anti-corruption proposals of Arévalo, a political outsider who represents a break with the so-called ‘pacto de corruptos’ (an allusion to entrenched corruption in Guatemala’s political institutions), as well as the backlash to his victory.
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