June 8th Dinner Forum at the Chatham Friends Meeting. Dinner at 6:30, Presentation at 7:30.

158 Southern Blvd, Chatham, NJ 07928

RSVP to Susan Steiner: smsteiner100@gmail.com

Eighty years ago in Guatemala, a coalition of workers, academics, progressive politicians and military officers ushered in a decade of political and social reforms in Guatemala. But in 1954, this experiment in democracy abruptly ended with a CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Guatemala’s popularly elected government. From that point on, this small Central American country was largely characterized by dictatorships, war and death squads, followed by decades of corrupt, inept governments.

But last August, the Guatemalan people elected Bernardo Arévalo.

The son the of democratically elected president of the 1944 Revolution, and leader of a very small, corruption-fighting political party, Arévalo is setting Guatemala in a new direction. But the ghosts of CIA-orchestrated-coups-past refuse to go away. They are powerful. They are rich. They are using the levers of government to maintain their dominance.

Join us on June 8th 6:30pm when Guatemalan journalist Ana Carpio will join us live at the Chatham Friends Meeting. She’ll walk us through Guatemala’s incredible turn of events with the election of a corruption-fighting leader in the middle of a den of wolves, hell bent on bringing the new president’s people-powered movement down.

(Photo Below: Seated is Guatemala’s newly elected, corruption-fighting president, Bernardo Arévalo who had been sworn in only a few hours before. Standing is journalist Ana Carpio alongside her brother…and Arévalo’s Chief of Security.