Guatemala’s liberal new leader faces huge obstacles to anti-graft drive
Guatemala City, Guatemala Reuters Guatemala’s new leftist President, Bernardo Arevalo, took office on Monday after a tortuous delay that underlined the uphill struggle he faces to meet high expectations and enact a sweeping anti-graft agenda in opposition-controlled Congress. Arevalo, the Central American country’s most liberal leader in years, powered to victory in August, vowing to […]
Weeping Guatemalans honour remains of Indigenous victims of civil war
Sepur Zargo, Guatemala Reuters Chanting prayers and laying down flowers over small wooden coffins, Indigenous Guatemalans honoured the remains of over 100 people killed decades ago in the country’s brutal civil war in a ceremony aimed at healing still-open wounds. Mourners from the Maya q’eqchi community gathered in a small Catholic church in the Guatemalan hamlet […]