“It saddens me that Semilla has been unable to uphold the party’s values”
Yuliana Ramazzini writes in El Faro English of the fracturing of Movimiento Semilla, the party of Bernardo Arévalo, and talks with Social anthropologist Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, a Maya K’iche’ social anthropologist who participated more than a decade ago in the founding of Semilla. When Samuel Pérez, the highest-profile congressman from Movimiento Semilla, Guatemala’s ruling party, announced in late May an initiative to form a new party called Raíces, it became apparent that the small party that had brought Bernardo Arévalo to the presidency in 2023 has split in two: between those close to the president and those close to Pérez.
