Guatemala 2023 Election Watch alerts

January 14, 2024 marks only the third time in the country’s history that an actually democratic government has taken power. It marks the beginning of the country’s second Democratic Spring. The new Democratic Spring in Guatemala is because of, and for the Guatemalan people, a majority being Mayan Indigenous peoples. From July 2023 - January 2024, Rights Action published election watch alerts, documenting this historic electoral process and battle.

2023 July 3 - Guatemala Election Watch #1: Real Democracy in Guatemala?

2023 July 3 - Guatemala Election Watch #2: Is the Electoral Fraud Fix In, In Guatemala?

2023 July 10 - Guatemala Election Watch #3: Electoral Re-Count Re-Confirms Semilla Movement Party Success

2023 July 13 - Guatemala Election Watch #4: Coup D’État Being Attempted in Guatemala

2023 July 14 - Guatemala Election Watch #5: Corrupted “Suspension” Order Defeated, Provisionally!

2023 July 18 - Guatemala Election Watch #6: Semilla Party Relaunches Run-Off Campaign

2023 July 19 - Guatemala Election Watch #7: Corrupted Public Prosecutor’s Office Orders Arrest of Semilla Party Members

2023 July 21 - Guatemala Election Watch #8: Corrupted Special Prosecutor’s Office Attempts Illegal Arrest of Supreme Electoral Tribunal Official for Not Suspending Semilla Party, as Illegally Ordered by a Corrupt Judge

2023 July 24 - Guatemala Election Watch #9: Electoral Coup D’´État in Guatemala: A Democracy and Rule of Law Challenge for United States and Canada

2023 July 26 - Guatemala Election Watch #10: Will US Do in Guatemala What US Has Never Done?

2023 July 28 - Guatemala Election Watch #11: “What is the fear of the corrupt? The people are in charge” Angelica Choc speaks

2023 July 31 - Guatemala Election Watch #12: Who is Arevalo? From the Father (1944) to the Son (2023)

2023 August 1 - Guatemala Election Watch #13: Bernardo Arevalo Speaks

2023 August 4 - Guatemala Election Watch #14: GHRC Speaks with Raúl Molina About Presidential Election Run-Off

2023 August 7 - Guatemala Election Watch #15: Semilla Party Campaign Attacked by Corrupt Regime, Taking on Corruption in Campaign Platform!

2023 August 9 - Guatemala Election Watch #16: Guatemalan Memories of October 1944 and The Spring

2023 August 14 - Guatemala Election Watch #17 : Elections in Guatemala & the Global Mining Industry

2023 August 16 - Guatemala Election Watch #18: Let Us Remember That We Are the Seeds Inherited From Our Ancestors

2023 August 18 - Guatemala Election Watch #19 - Truthout Article by G. Russell & M. Bakal

2023 August 21 - Guatemala Election Watch #20 - President Arevalo & Semilla Party Win Guatemalan Elections Urgent Questions for US, Canada & International Community

2023 August 22 - Guatemala Election Watch #21 - President Arevalo #2 in Guatemala Beginning of End of U.S. Invasion-Genocide Era

2023 August 26 - Guatemala Election Watch #22: Assassination Plots Against President-elect Bernardo Arevalo & VP-elect Karin Herrera

2023 August 29 - Guatemala Election Watch #23: “Lawfare” Attacks by Corrupt Guatemalan Government and Legal System Continue

2023 September 5 - Guatemala Election Watch #24: “We Are Witnessing an Ongoing Coup D’État”

2023 September 5 - Guatemala Election Watch #25: Will the USA & Canada Accept Guatemala’s Return to Democracy?

2023 September 15 - Guatemala Election Watch #26: President-Elect Bernardo Arevalo Calls on Coup Plotters to Resign

2023 September 18 - Guatemala Election Watch #27: President-Elect Bernardo Arevalo Calls on Population to Defend Democracy

2023 September 21 - Guatemala Election Watch #28: Commentary by Brisna Cazaj-Rowe, Survivor of Guatemalan Repression

2023 September 25 - Guatemala Election Watch #29: Lawyer Claudia Gonzales Illegally Imprisoned

2023 October 3 - Guatemala Election Watch #30: Propaganda Film Attacks NGOs, Catholic Church and Land Defenders

2023 October 5 - Guatemala Election Watch #31: From Bad to Worse, Repression Against People Protesting Electoral Coup

2023 October 8 - Guatemala Election Watch #32: Guatemala Shut Down by Peaceful Democracy Defenders

2023 October 10 - Guatemala Election Watch #33: “We Have No President”

2023 October 16 - Guatemala Election Watch #34: Indigenous Authorities Call for Sanctions on Corrupt Actors

2023 October 16 - Guatemala Election Watch #35: Call on US Government to Apply Sanctions on Corrupt Actors in Guatemala

2023 October 18 - Guatemala Election Watch #36: 1 Dead, More Injured by Gunshots Near Pro-Democracy Protest

2023 October 19 - Guatemala Election Watch #37: Indigenous-Led National Shutdown in Defense of Democracy

2023 October 20 - Guatemala Election Watch #38: Who is Guatemalan Prresident-Elect Bernarto Arevalo?

2023 November 1 - Guatemala Election Watch #39: Indigenous Democracy Defender Assassinated

2023 November 8 - Guatemala Election Watch #40: “The Only Thing We Have to Thank for is that They Unified Us”

2023 November 13 - Guatemala Election Watch #41: Luz Emilia Ulario Zavala: A Voice to Defend Democracy

2023 November 21 - Guatemala Election Watch #42: Guatemalan Regime Seeks to Remove Immunity of President & VP-Elect

2023 November 29 - Guatemala Election Watch #43: Challenges Facing Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala Going Forward

2023 December 6 - Guatemala Election Watch #44: “We Have Not Been Resisting for 63 Days. We Have Been Fighting for More Than 500 years”

2023 December 11 - Guatemala Election Watch #45: Marching with the President and VP-Elects for Democracy and a New Direction in Guatemala

2024 January 12 - Guatemala Election Watch #46: Guatemala’s Presidential Inauguration is a Big Deal

2024 January 15 - A Day to Honor the Guatemalan People