Sandra Torres is pitching her two decades as a leading figure in Guatemalan politics as she tries to woo disenchanted voters ahead of a presidential runoff on Sunday and avoid a third straight election loss.
Torres, 67, says her experience will be vital to combat a poverty rate of more than 55%, which has made Guatemala the region's top source of migration to the United States and one of the world's worst countries for child malnutrition.
Torres, who hails from a poor town in Guatemala's Peten region, has promised to expand the social safety net if elected. Torres has eyed the presidency since 2011, when she divorced her husband in a failed attempt to dodge a constitutional ban on close relatives of the incumbent president running for the office.
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