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Arévalo is the son of former President Juan José Arévalo Bermejo who implemented important social reforms in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

“Our local teams are now contingency planning to address not only the needs of those trapped in Gaza amid escalating violence, but also the more than five million Palestinians currently living under Israeli occupation who will require critical support to continue accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare,” Mr. Bermejo said in the Thursday statement.

His father, Juan José Arévalo Bermejo, was president of Guatemala from 1945 to 1951.

“She loved to cook,” added Maribel Bermejo, another Arellano cousin.

Bernardo Arévalo, candidate for the centrist Seed Movement, is the son of former President Juan José Arévalo Bermejo, Guatemala’s first democratically elected president who served from 1945 to 1951, and was inspired by U.S.