Unfortunately campaign violence has not abated in the days leading to the runoff with politicians and labor leaders slain on a near daily basis.
In another worrying development, the political factions representing Colom and Perez have spent nearly $90 million over the past 18 months on things like renting buses for voters to go to the polls. It is the sparing of no expense by either side that worried one Guatemalan columnist:
These figures can be analyzed from many angles, but they prove an anxiety held by several social groups: the elections are a political game based on money. It’s a pistocrasia and whoever donated the most feels entitled to the best lands.
Image- Al Jazeera (Guatemalans lined up to vote in the first round last month)
Sources (English)- International Herald Tribune, Reuters, Angus Reid Consultants, The Latin Americanist
Sources (Spanish)- elPeriódico de
2 comments:
Isn't the second round on Nov. 4th?
Ugh, what an embarassing typo. It's been corrected
Thanks for pointing it out. It helps when readers are more eagle-eyed than me!
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