An Earthshaking Election in Guatemala
On August 20, Guatemalans elected a new president, Bernardo Ar\xe9valo. His landslide victory was also a major win for the country\u2019s struggling democracy. An unexpectedly strong candidate who ran on an anti-corruption platform, Ar\xe9valo triumphed despite months of dirty tricks by institutional actors seeking to preserve the country\u2019s status quo.
To discuss Ar\xe9valo\u2019s victory, the wild months that led up to it, and the challenges ahead, Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic talked to Manuel Mel\xe9ndez-S\xe1nchez, a PhD candidate in Political Science at Harvard University who studies emerging challenges to contemporary democracy, with a focus on Latin America. Guatemala isn\u2019t out of the woods yet, but in a moment of worldwide anxiety over democratic backsliding, the Guatemalan election might be the rarest of things: a good news story.
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