Guatemala chooses leader amid violence
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Guatemalans rattled by soaring crime and a wave of campaign-related violence will decide in elections Sunday between a former general who promises law and order and a three-time presidential contender who says he will focus on reducing poverty.
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A former general who wants the army to tackle rampant crime will face a center-left businessman in Guatemala's presidential runoff in November after a close first-round vote, results showed on Monday.
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Guatemala on Monday swears in Alvaro Colom, its first leftist president in more than 50 years.
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A former general who wants to use troops to fight crime stands a good chance of taking power in Guatemala after forcing a runoff with a leftist in a first round of voting for president.
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Guatemalan voters saw the top five top candidates in their country's presidential race square off in a historic debate Thursday evening, a contrast to the violence and name-calling that has marred the campaign in recent months.
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Mozambique holds elections on Wednesday and Thursday to choose a successor to President Joaquim Chissano, who ruled for 18 years and led the southern African country to peace after a long civil war that claimed up to a million lives.
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Facts about Alvaro Colom, who will be sworn in for a four-year term as president of Guatemala on Jan. 14:
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Rebels greeted Alvaro Uribe's first inauguration as president in 2002 with an audacious mortar attack on the governing palace. But violence and crime are down sharply as Washington's closest ally in Latin America gets sworn in for a second term Monday.
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Moscow, Aug 29 (VNA) - Chechens voted on Sunday in an election to choose a candidate as the Russian republic&#39;s new leader, with thousands of security personnel patrolling its streets against the threat of terrorist attacks.
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As Bush heads to the region, his key allies in Guatemala and El Salvador are reeling from gangland style killings that many believe are related to drug smuggling and corruption
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Miguel Arroyave, chief of a faction of the paramilitary Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC),has been killed in an ambush in the country&#39;s central-south province of Meta, authorities said Monday.
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Guatemala's president says organised crime gangs ordered the murder of four policemen  held in a top security jail.
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Guatemala's Maya Indian Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu said on Wednesday she may run for president this year in a bid to become the second indigenous head of state in Latin America.
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Gunmen stormed a Guatemalan prison and shot to death four jailed police officers in a mafia hit aimed at stopping investigators from finding out who ordered the slayings of three politicians from neighboring El Salvador, Guatemala's leader said Monday.
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Guatemala's first leftist president in 50 years, Alvaro Colom, took office Monday with a pledge to help the poor.
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Against a backdrop of war and squalor, Chechens voted Sunday for a replacement for their assassinated president in a vote the Kremlin hopes will bring some stability to a region wracked by a decade of violence.
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GUATEMALA CITY -- Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu, who is a Maya Indian, said yesterday she may run for president this year in a bid to become the second indigenous head of state in Latin America. Menchu, a defender of Maya Indian victims of Guatemala's bloody 1960-96 civil war, said several political parties had asked her to run as president or ...