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Presidency Beckons For Guatemala's Arevalo Despite Judicial Onslaught

The moves against Arevalo and his party have ignited mass protests by Guatemalans demanding the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras and Prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche (Credit: AFP)

Bernardo Arevalo has survived months of judicial machinations to stop his inauguration Sunday as Guatemala's new president -- the target, according to himself and observers, of a corrupt elite desperate to cling to power.

Since his surprise victory in elections last August, political outsider Arevalo has had to overcome a string of obstacles placed in his way by graft-accused prosecutors closely aligned with the Central American country's political and economic ruling class.

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