Guatemalans on Sunday vote in a second round run-off election for a new presiden...
GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalans on Sunday vote in a second round run-off election for a new president who is likely to face a major challenge coping with a deal signed with Washington in July to turn the country into a buffer zone to stem migration.
A proponent of social programs to alleviate poverty, Torres wants to put troops on the streets to fight gangs that have made the country one of the most violent in the Americas, helping to spur mass migration to the United States. The daughter of a former town mayor in a province of the jungle department of Peten, Torres is viewed by her allies as gifted organizer and leader. Critics accuse her of having authoritarian leanings.
Like Morales, Torres ended up in the crosshairs of a probe by the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala , a United Nations anti-graft body whose work led to the ouster and imprisonment of ex-President Otto Perez in 2015. One of his campaign proposals is to create an “investment wall” instead of a physical wall on the border between Guatemala and Mexico to curb migration north.He said that drug traffickers had offered him money but that neither he nor his Vamos party, which was created in 2017, have received “a penny” from organized crime.
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