Day after day, despite the prevailing uncertainty due to the public prosecutor’s onslaught, the army of civilians defending the putschist effort has more and more silent deserters
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.
Guatemalans overwhelmingly picked an independent, anti-corruption progressive to be the country’s next president but his opponent remained silent Monday, leaving open the possibility of a challenge to landslide results that