GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo is scheduled to be sworn into office Sunday afternoon.
But just like almost every day since his resounding Aug. 20 election victory, the inauguration will be tinged with doubts and tensions.
The still-serving Attorney General, Consuelo Porras, has tried every legal trick in the book to put him on trial or in jail before he takes office.
And Arévalo’s Seed Movement party will not have a majority in Congress, and may not even have formal recognition there.
Under Porras, the country’s prosecutors and judges who led that effort have become targets, forcing dozens to flee the country or be arrested.
Persons:
Bernardo Arévalo, Consuelo Porras, —, Arévalo, Porras, Karin Herrera, Brian A, Nichols
Organizations:
GUATEMALA CITY, —, Central, la Constitucion, Prosecutors, Arévalo’s, Constitutional, European Union, Organization of American, United
Locations:
GUATEMALA, — Guatemalan, Central American, United States, U.S