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Weekly Report - 23 November 2023 (WR-23-47)
GUATEMALA: Arévalo’s prospects darken
It was arguably just a matter of time. Guatemala’s attorney general’s office, which is headed up by US-sanctioned María Consuelo Porras, has presented the supreme court (CSJ) with a request to strip president-elect Bernardo Arévalo of his immunity from prosecution to be investigated over last year’s student takeover of public university Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (Usac). Arévalo, who won the 20 August presidential run-off by a landslide promising to take on the so-called pacto de corruptos’, an allusion to corruption in Guatemala’s institutions, with which Porras is identified, has slammed the request as the latest sign of the coup d’état which he has previously accused Porras of co-orchestrating [WR-23-36], to prevent his assumption of office in January. This follows the suspension of his party, Movimiento Semilla (Semilla), and the targeting of electoral authorities (TSE) [WR-23-45].
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