In an upset victory, Alvaro Colom, who ran on an anti-poverty platform, beat the hard-line retired General Otto Perez Molina with close to 53 percent of the vote. We get reaction from Guatemalan American writer Francisco Goldman. His new book "The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?" implicates the defeated Perez Molina in the 1998 murder of beloved Guatemalan human rights activist Bishop Juan Gerardi.
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Thursday, November 8
by
Patrick
on Thu 08 Nov 2007 08:00 PM GMT
US based Democracy Now! ran the following reaction to recent elections:
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