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Indigenous farmworker leader bids for Guatemala presidency

Por: ABC News World March 15, 2023

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GUATEMALA CITY -- An Indigenous female farmworker leader hopes to become Guatemala’s next president. But Thelma Cabrera faces an uphill fight, after the country’s Electoral Tribunal refused to allow her to register her candidacy. There is just one week left in the registration period for the June 25 s, but Cabrera and her Movement for Peoples’ Liberation are vowing to go ahead with her campaign whether the gets registered or not. It was... + full article



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