Azucena Morán is a research associate at the Research Institute for Sustainability–Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, focusing on Central American politics and participatory and deliberative democracy. She is a member of Participedia’s editorial board and on the democratic innovations steering committee of the European Consortium for Political Research.
In the face of a hostile conservative elite, radical democratization is Guatemalan president-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s best hope to both tackle corruption and revive the country’s “democratic spring.”