Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo is scheduled to be sworn into office Sunday afternoon. But just like almost every day since his resounding Aug. 20 election victory, the inauguration will be tinged with doubts and tensions.
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    The still-serving Attorney General, Consuelo Porras, has tried every legal trick in the book to put him on trial or in jail before he takes office.

    Arévalo is an academic, diplomat and the son of a progressive president from the middle of the 20th century, and his election marked a political awakening in a population weary of corruption and impunity.

    The inauguration is scheduled to have a festive tone: cumbia and salsa music is planned for a huge celebration in Guatemala’s City’s emblematic Plaza de la Constitucion.

    That Arévalo has made it to within a day of his inauguration is largely owed to thousands of Guatemala’s Indigenous people, who took to the streets last year to protest and demand that Attorney General Porras and her prosecutors respect the Aug. 20 vote.

    On Friday his vice president, Karin Herrera, announced that the Constitutional Court had granted her an injunction, heading off a supposed arrest order.

    Prosecutors have alleged wrongdoing in the way the Seed Movement collected signatures to register as a party years earlier, that its leaders encouraged a monthlong occupation of a public university, and that there was fraud in the election.

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