Anti-corruption activist Bernardo Arévalo has become president of Guatemala against all odds. He received death threats because he announced that he would restrict the privileges of the super-rich and push back the drug cartels.
Guatemala's poor only refer to the rich elite as "el paquete corrupto", the corrupt pack. More than one in two people in Guatemala live below the national poverty line. The indigenous people make up more than 40 percent of the population and have been pushed to the margins of society since the Spanish conquest.