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Guatemalan presidential candidate for the Semilla party, Bernardo Arévalo, celebrates the results of the presidential runoff election in Guatemala City, on Sunday.

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Guatemala's anti-corruption candidate wins presidency in a landslide vote

1:43pm August 21, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

In Guatemala, an anti-corruption candidate wins the runoff election by a landslide, in a vote that was a critical test of the Central American country's democratic credentials.

Donald Trump, left, is handed an umbrella from Walt Nauta, his personal aide and co-defendant in a felony case in Florida, on Thursday, the day the former president pleaded not guilty to four felony charges in Washington, D.C.

New charges against Trump focus on lies. Scholars see an authoritarian playbook

10:56am August 07, 2023

by Odette Yousef

Prosecutors allege the former president and co-conspirators used lies to advance criminal conspiracies to overturn the election. Scholars say distant and recent history show how potent lies can be.

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Protesters gather in front of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal building in Guatemala City, Wednesday. The tribunal certified presidential election results, sending candidates Sandra Torres and Bernardo Arévalo to an Aug. 20 runoff, while the Attorney General's Office announced that Arévalo's party had been suspended.

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A top Guatemalan party is barred, throwing the presidential election into the unknown

9:09am July 13, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

Guatemala's already troubled presidential election has been thrown into more chaos and confusion only weeks ahead of a contentious second round of voting.

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Supporters of Guatemalan candidate for the National Union of Hope party and former first lady, Sandra Torres, attend a campaign rally in Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala, on June 17.

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3 things to know about Guatemala's elections

5:02am June 23, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

Voters will go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president. But some of the most popular candidates won't be on the ballot.

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Move Forward Party leader and prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat gives a press conference at the party headquarters in Bangkok on May 14 after polls closed in Thailand's general election.

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Early returns show opposition parties are poised for victory in Thai elections

3:11pm May 14, 2023

by Michael Sullivan

The Pheu Thai party and the progressive Move Forward Party made a strong showing, in a repudiation to the military-backed government of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.

Flags of different nations. The new Freedom House report finds that the gap between the number of countries where freedom has improved and where it has declined is at its narrowest in 17 years.

Global declines in democracy may be slowing, Freedom House says in a new report

7:24am March 09, 2023

by Frank Langfitt

The report, "Freedom in the World 2023," finds that the gap between the number of countries where freedom has improved and where it has declined is at its narrowest in 17 years.

The All Progressives Congress party's presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, attends a party event in Abuja on July 20, 2022.

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What's at stake as Nigerians elect the president of Africa's largest democracy

6:31pm February 24, 2023

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

The continent's largest democracy and biggest economy holds a presidential election Saturday that's come down to a race of three leading candidates.

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Biden and Brazil's Lula find common ground against violent extremism

7:20pm February 10, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

It was just over a month ago that hundreds of extremist supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, stormed the capital and ransacked the Congress, Supreme Court and the presidential offices.

Lawyers gather in a demonstration against the Israeli government's controversial plans to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Tel Aviv District Court of Justice on Jan. 12. The new justice minister Yariv Levin outlined proposals such as allowing politicians to override Supreme Court decisions.

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Israel's far-right government wants the power to override its Supreme Court

5:01am February 04, 2023

by Daniel Estrin

Despite huge protests, Israel's new far-right government is doubling down on its first major initiative: to weaken the judiciary. Hungary and Poland's far-right did the same when they entered office.

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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is still immensely popular in Mexico. Across the country you'll find graffiti and placards that say "Que siga el presidente" (Let the president continue.)

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Mexico's president says he won't seek an unconstitutional second term

4:17pm February 03, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

His comments are important, because democracy in Latin America is in retreat. The president of El Salvador has announced he will defy constitutional term limits and run again for president next year.