This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Guatemala is in the midst of a…
Guatemala s President-elect Bernardo Arévalo waves to supporters. Orlando Estrada/AFP via Getty Images Guatemala is in the midst of a democratic crisis so severe that it may prevent the new …
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We are writing, on behalf of Human Rights Watch, to call on the European Union to urgently impose targeted sanctions, whether under its global human rights sanctions regime or an ad-hoc sanctions regime to address interferences with the electoral process in Guatemala. We also urge you to take other actions, detailed below, in response to serious human rights violations and democratic backsliding in the country.