Guatemala election: Biden's 'dream leader' Bernardo Arevalo rides anti-graft wave to power

Guatemala’s turbulent elections ended in a sweeping victory for a progressive former diplomat Bernardo Arevalo, whose anti-corruption platform harnessed anger at a political establishment that barred better-known candidates from the ballot. “He was kind of a right guy at the right time,” Dr. Ryan Berg, who directs the Americas program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Washington Examiner. “In a sense, he was the only anti-establishment choice remaining after a number of other leading candidates were taken out by judicial decisions and electoral authority decisions.” UP...