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    Thelma Cabrera rallies with supporters

    'They Are Afraid of the People': Guatemala Tribunal Bars Leftist Presidential Ticket From Ballot

    One election expert called the decision an "electoral coup."

    Jake Johnson
    Feb 04, 2023

    Guatemala's Supreme Electoral Tribunal ruled earlier this week that a leftist presidential ticket headed by Indigenous human rights defender Thelma Cabrera should be barred from the June ballot, prompting fury and vows of mass protests from Cabrera's supporters.

    Thursday's ruling—which Cabrera's young political party, the Movement for the Liberation of the Peoples (MLP), is vowing to appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice—stems from Guatemala electoral authorities' refusal to certify the candidacy of Cabrera's running mate, former human rights ombudsman Jordán Rodas.

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    Demonstrators clash with riot police in Peru

    A New Crossroads for Peru's Fragile Democracy

    Autocracy threatens to take hold if a more stable democratic renewal is not found.

    Inés M. Pousadela
    Feb 04, 2023

    On 25 January, roughly six weeks after being sworn in following her predecessor’s removal, Peruvian president Dina Boluarte finally recognized that elections were the only way out of political crisis. Elections were rescheduled for April 2024, much earlier than the end of the presidential term she’s been tasked with completing, but not soon enough for thousands who’ve taken to the streets demanding her immediate resignation.

    Boluarte’s call for a ‘national truce’ has been met with further protests. Their repression has led to major bloodshed: the Ombudsman’s office has reported close to 60 dead – mostly civilians killed by security forces – and 1,500 injured.

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    People walk along Wall Street in the financial district on April 19, 2010 in New York City.

    Good News! We Can Bend the Corporations to Our Will

    No government-sponsored institution should be encouraged to continue causing severe harm. Obligations to the public interest which were removed long ago can be reinstated.

    Robert C. Hinkley
    Feb 04, 2023

    “We learned last week that certain fossil fuel producers were fully aware in the 1970s that their core product was baking our planet. And just like the tobacco industry, they rode rough-shod over their own science.

    Some in Big Oil peddled the big lie. And like the tobacco industry, those responsible must be held to account.” UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Davos, January 18, 2023

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