The Latest Breaking News from Bernardo Arévalo

Bernardo Arévalo, who won the Guatemalan presidency by a landslide, says what is happening in his country is a "coup in slow motion."

The electoral body in charge of regulating Guatemala’s political groups, known as the Citizen Registry, announced the suspension Thursday of President-elect Bernardo Arevalo’s Seed Movement party.

Few doubt the right of Guatemalans to protest. The challenge arises when protests exact a heavy toll on the well-being of its citizens.

Thousands of people have blocked highways across Guatemala in reaction to the attorney general’s office seizing vote tallies from electoral authorities over the weekend as part of ongoing investigations into accusations of voting fraud that observers say are politically motivated

Protests by thousands of Guatemalans this week supporting President-elect Bernardo Arévalo suggest that the efforts by some officials to derail his presidency have awakened a new will among many citizens to defend democracy

Fears Guatemalan democracy is in peril amid warning of potential coup to block inauguration of anti-corruption crusader

Thousands of farmers and Indigenous supporters have blocked roads and streets in Guatemala to defend the president-elect as government prosecutors seek to ban his political party

Thousands of indigenous supporters have protested in Guatemala City to defend Guatemala’s president-elect as government prosecutors seek to ban his political party

Guatemala's President-elect Bernardo Arévalo says he plans to call people into the streets next week to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office

The United States government has granted asylum to Guatemala’s former lead anti-corruption prosecutor two years after he was fired and fled the country under threat of arrest

Guatemala’s prosecutor for electoral crimes has asked the Supreme Court of Justice to strip five magistrates of the country’s top electoral authority of their immunity so they can be investigated on fraud allegations made by the loser of the Aug. 20 election