Retired right-wing general Otto Perez won Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday with a promise to crack down on the country's violent crime. Perez has vowed to deploy troops on the streets and increase the size of the police force.
We continue our focus on the first of the UN Millennium Development Goals: to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty. We gather accounts of everyday life in Rwanda, Senegal, Madagascar, Guatemala and Cambodia.
Disillusioned Americans turn their backs on President Obama just months before the presidential election. Also, as elections take place in Guatemala we bring you a special report on the vigilantes wreaking havoc in the countryside. Finally, we find out why Brazil wants to be as good at rugby as it is as football.
Early results from Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday showed right-wing candidate and former general Otto Perez taking a lead in the race amid promises to clamp down on rampant crime in the Central American country.
Former General Otto Perez is widely expected to win Sunday's presidential election in Guatemala. Perez is ahead in the early counting and, if elected, he'll face considerable pressure to crack down on the country's surging crime rates.
Guatemalans head to the polls this Sunday to choose a new president. The current frontrunner is a former general, Otto Pérez Molin, who has based his campaign mainly on security issues. Meanwhile, Rigoberta Menchu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize back in 1992, is the contest's only left-wing candidate. A Mayan by birth, she's staying to true to her priorities, fighting against the exclusion of indigenous people.
In Wednesday's pick of the world's press, we look at fears NATO may facilitate a massacre in Sirte, the dark side of the Libyan revolution, Israeli plans to arm settlers and outrage in Latin America over STD experiments 60 years ago.
A commission ordered to investigate a 1940s US medical programme which saw 1,300 people in Guatemala deliberately infected with syphilis has concluded that at least 83 people died as a result.
INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Thurs. 04/08/11, Images of Hosni Mubarak in his cage in court are flooding the international papers. The Daily News Egypt says it’s a milestone in Egypt’s long struggle for democracy. But other papers are more critical of such a "spectacle of revenge". Meanwhile, another historic trial has taken place in Guatemala...with an unprecedented sentence.
First, the US secures a last-minute debt deal, but at what cost? Also in the US, the moving story of an unlikely friendship between a rape victim and the man she wrongly identified as her attacker. Finally, the Chilean miners who survived a 69-day ordeal underground are bringing charges against the state.
