2023 Guatemalan Elections: Democratic Spring or Winter

Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs

The 2023 Guatemalan elections were closely watched this past summer, especially following the anti-democratic efforts that led to Bernardo Arévalo’s Semilla party being suspended after unexpectedly emerging as one of the two victors of the first round of elections in late June. Arévalo eventually beat out former first lady Sandra Torres in the August 20 run-off election. Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Harvard University and a USIP-Minerva Peace and Security Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace, joins us today to discuss the Semilla Party’s platform and its success and the questions that loom about the future of democracy in the country.

2023 Guatemalan Elections: Democratic Spring or Winter?

Episode Credits:

Hosts: Nicole Rivas and Leo Kamer

Editor: Leo Kamer

Music: Zee Yuen