{"id":1198787,"date":"2023-09-02T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=8f6dd5c662e01a69a53c7b01f84c1efb"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:45:53","slug":"facing-electoral-defeat-guatemalas-ruling-elites-undermine-nations-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/02\/facing-electoral-defeat-guatemalas-ruling-elites-undermine-nations-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Electoral Defeat, Guatemala\u2019s Ruling Elites Undermine Nation\u2019s Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election authorities have certified Bernardo Ar&eacute;valo as Guatemala&rsquo;s president-elect, but efforts to destabilize his party and the election outcome persist and they are taking a toll on the population. Still, Guatemalans are speaking out to defend their democracy. A progressive congressman and sociologist, Ar&eacute;valo&rsquo;s victory in the August 20 presidential runoff election was officially certified by...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/facing-electoral-defeat-guatemalas-ruling-elites-undermine-nations-democracy\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/facing-electoral-defeat-guatemalas-ruling-elites-undermine-nations-democracy\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts to undermine the president-elect are taking a toll on his party and on Guatemalans standing up for democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67542,361,432,50,31,67602,4721],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198788,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198787\/revisions\/1198788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}