“I’m fearful they won’t allow Arevalo to assume the presidency”
HAVANA TIMES – Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli stated on Wednesday that she, like a portion of Guatemalan society, fears “they won’t let” Bernardo Arevalo assume his elected role as president of that country next January 14th.
“I too am afraid they won’t let him assume power. The right has many roots in Guatemala; it’s very strong,” she commented in Salamanca, Spain.
“Guatemala is a country that’s been hit hard by repression. But the people are supporting Arevalo, and I hope he can manage to get inaugurated and reach the presidency,” Belli said in response to journalists’ question. She spoke in the northern Spanish city of Salamanca, where she had come to receive the XXXII Queen Sofia prize for Ibero-American Poetry.
Bernardo Arevalo, who surprised Guatemalans with his landslide victory in the August 20 runoff election there, has den
