Guatemala’s top court ruled a former attorney general and anticorruption crusader ineligible to run in June’s presidential election, dealing a blow to a nascent social movement seeking to strengthen the rule of law in the impoverished Central American nation. The Constitutional Court decision upheld rulings from the Supreme Court and the Electoral Tribunal barring the candidacy of Thelma Aldana, she said Wednesday.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 16, 2019 02:37 UTC