When I traveled through Guatemala in early January, the country was buzzing with excitement over Jimmy Morales' coming inauguration. The detritus of the recent elections was still scattered everywhere, and images of the competing candidates plastered the walls from the sooty outskirts of Guatemala City along the mountain roads to Chichicastenango. The new president was the key topic of conversation among people of all stations, rural agricultural workers and urban professionals alike. With the civil war still a recent memory, people could not believe that months of peaceful protest involving cross-generational and intercultural support led to the ouster and arrest of a sitting president. The people I spoke with were extremely optimistic about Morales but made it clear that if he did not deliver, the protests would resume....
