guatemala - EnergiesNet https://energiesnet.com Latam Energies News Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:47:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://energiesnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cropped-Logo-en-ALTAS-final-2-32x32.png guatemala - EnergiesNet https://energiesnet.com 32 32 Latam Brief: Venezuelan opposition names placeholder candidate https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-venezuelan-opposition-names-placeholder-candidate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latam-brief-venezuelan-opposition-names-placeholder-candidate https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-venezuelan-opposition-names-placeholder-candidate/#respond Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:47:44 +0000 https://energiesnet.com/?p=30042 Latin America Daily Briefing Venezuela’s Democratic Unitary Platform, a coalition of opposition parties, obtained a last minute window of negotiation for a ballot space in July presidential elections, after electoral authorities prevented its candidate from registering by Monday’s deadline. Yesterday the PUD secretary general Omar Barboza revealed that an unnamed candidate (known as number 13) …

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]]> https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-venezuelan-opposition-names-placeholder-candidate/feed/ 0 Latam Brief: Maduro expels UN human rights office https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-maduro-expels-un-human-rights-office/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latam-brief-maduro-expels-un-human-rights-office https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-maduro-expels-un-human-rights-office/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:18:32 +0000 https://energiesnet.com/?p=29128 Latin America Daily Briefing Venezuela’s Maduro government ordered the local UN human rights office to suspend operations and gave its staff 72 hours to leave the country. “The government said the UN human rights office must rectify its “colonialist, abusive and violating attitude”, accusing it of playing an “inappropriate role” in the country and supporting …

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]]> https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-maduro-expels-un-human-rights-office/feed/ 0 Latam Brief: Arévalo is Guatemala’s president https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-arevalo-is-guatemalas-president/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latam-brief-arevalo-is-guatemalas-president https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-arevalo-is-guatemalas-president/#respond Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:11:16 +0000 https://energiesnet.com/?p=28367 Latin America Daily Briefing Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo swore in as Guatemala’s president early this morning, after a nine-hour delay caused by Congressional wrangling. “Our democracy has the strength to resist and through unity and trust we can transform the political landscape in Guatemala,” Arévalo said moments after taking office. “Never again will there be …

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]]> https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-arevalo-is-guatemalas-president/feed/ 0 Latam Brief: Arévalo to take office in Guatemala https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-arevalo-to-take-office-sunday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latam-brief-arevalo-to-take-office-sunday https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-arevalo-to-take-office-sunday/#respond Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:10:44 +0000 https://energiesnet.com/?p=28347 Latin America Daily Briefing Guatemalan president-elect Bernardo Arévalo is set to take office on Sunday, despite months of legal maneuvers against the anti-corruption crusader and his Movimiento Semilla party. Arévalo has repeatedly denounced a “slow-motion coup d’etat” by the country’s corrupt political elite, under way ever since he unexpectedly came in second in the June …

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]]> https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-ecuador-declares-state-of-emergency/feed/ 0 Latam Brief: Chileans reject Constitution 2.0 (video) https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-chileans-reject-constitution-2-0-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latam-brief-chileans-reject-constitution-2-0-video https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-chileans-reject-constitution-2-0-video/#respond Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:46:27 +0000 https://energiesnet.com/?p=27764 Latin America Daily Briefing Chilean voters rejected a draft constitution in a plesbicite yesterday. It is the second time in just over a year that voters have rejected a proposal to replace the current, dictatorship-drafted magna carta. Nearly 56% of voters rejected the proposal drafted by a conservative-led Constitutional Council, and 44% supported it. About …

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]]> https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-chileans-reject-constitution-2-0-video/feed/ 0 Latam Brief: Guatemalan electoral court asked to nullify election https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-guatemalan-court-asked-to-nullify-election/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latam-brief-guatemalan-court-asked-to-nullify-election https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-guatemalan-court-asked-to-nullify-election/#respond Wed, 13 Dec 2023 07:00:54 +0000 https://energiesnet.com/?p=27636 Latin America Daily Briefing Guatemala’s attorney general Consuelo Porras alleged fraud in the country’s presidential election, asked the electoral court to nullify the results, and asked Congress to strip president-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s immunity from prosecution. “ While the accusations appear ungrounded, “fears that attempts to prevent Arévalo from being sworn in on January 14 can …

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]]> https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-guatemalan-court-asked-to-nullify-election/feed/ 0 Guatemala’s Antigraft Crusader Won in a Landslide. Will He Actually Take Office? – Simon Romero and Jody García/NYTimes https://energiesnet.com/guatemalas-antigraft-crusader-won-in-a-landslide-will-he-actually-take-office-simon-romero-and-jody-garcia-nytimes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guatemalas-antigraft-crusader-won-in-a-landslide-will-he-actually-take-office-simon-romero-and-jody-garcia-nytimes https://energiesnet.com/guatemalas-antigraft-crusader-won-in-a-landslide-will-he-actually-take-office-simon-romero-and-jody-garcia-nytimes/#respond Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:38:49 +0000 https://energiesnet.com/?p=27616 Simon Romero and Jody García, NYTimes GUATEMALA CITY EnergiesNet.com 12 12 2023 When the anticorruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo won a landslide victory in Guatemala’s presidential race, voters streamed into the capital of Central America’s most populous country to celebrate. But as Mr. Arévalo’s foes intensify efforts to bar the president-elect from taking office just weeks …

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]]> https://energiesnet.com/guatemalas-antigraft-crusader-won-in-a-landslide-will-he-actually-take-office-simon-romero-and-jody-garcia-nytimes/feed/ 0 Latam Brief: Guatemala court refuses to halt legal moves against Arévalo https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-guatemala-court-refuses-to-halt-legal-moves-against-arevalo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latam-brief-guatemala-court-refuses-to-halt-legal-moves-against-arevalo https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-guatemala-court-refuses-to-halt-legal-moves-against-arevalo/#respond Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:32:59 +0000 https://energiesnet.com/?p=27183 Latin America Daily Briefing Guatemala’s Supreme Court rejected protective measures requested by president-elect Bernardo Arévalo to halt prosecutors’ legal moves against him that he said amount to an “ongoing coup” to prevent him from assuming power in January. (AFP) Arevalo had asked the high court in September to annul legal decisions against his Semilla party …

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]]> https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-guatemala-court-refuses-to-halt-legal-moves-against-arevalo/feed/ 0 Latam Brief: Guatemala suspends Movimiento Semilla (November 3, 2023) https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-guatemala-suspends-movimiento-semilla-november-3-2023/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latam-brief-guatemala-suspends-movimiento-semilla-november-3-2023 https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-guatemala-suspends-movimiento-semilla-november-3-2023/#respond Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:51:51 +0000 https://energiesnet.com/?p=26833 Latin America Daily Briefing Guatemala’s Citizen Registry, the body in charge of regulating the country’s political parties, announced the suspension of president-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s Movimiento Semilla group yesterday. A judge had granted the party’s suspension at the request of the Attorney General’s Office in July, shortly before Arévalo was declared the second-place finisher in the …

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]]> https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-guatemala-suspends-movimiento-semilla-november-3-2023/feed/ 0 Latam Brief: Seven assassination suspects dead in Ecuador (October 9, 2023) https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-seven-assassination-suspects-dead-in-ecuador-october-9-2023/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latam-brief-seven-assassination-suspects-dead-in-ecuador-october-9-2023 https://energiesnet.com/latam-brief-seven-assassination-suspects-dead-in-ecuador-october-9-2023/#respond Mon, 09 Oct 2023 18:36:39 +0000 https://energiesnet.com/?p=25945 Latin America Daily Briefing Six Colombian men detained in Ecuador in relation to the August assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio were killed in prison on Friday. El País reports they were hanged, days after the United States offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the masterminds behind Villavicencio’s murder …

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