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Guatemala goes to the polls on Sunday, haunted by a violent and contested past and anxious over an increasingly violent present. The legacy of the country's 36-year-civil war is never far from contemporary politics, and the front-runner in the presidential runoff - retired General Perez Molina, whose right-wing Patriotic Party has a very slight lead over left-leaning businessman Alvaro Colom in some opinion polls - has been the subject of allegations in a new book on the 1998 assassination of Guatemalan human rights crusader Bishop Juan Gerardi. Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in the parish house...
...However, Molina's slight edge in some polls - Colom actually has his own small lead in other surveys - is based on voters' concerns over present-day violence. Crime has soared in the country of 13 million since the signing of the 1996 peace agreements between leftist guerrillas and the government - close to 6,000 people were murdered last year alone. Most of the killings are blamed on violent youth gangs known as maras, or on turf battles between powerful drug cartels. And that violence has seeped into the election, with over 50 candidates and party activists killed since campaigning began...
...justice system has left 98 percent of cases unsolved, prompting some citizens to take the law into their own hands. On Thursday, for example, an angry mob in the small town of San Juan Sacatepequez captured and burned alive three teenagers suspected of belonging to a street gang. Perez Molina has built support by promising to put more soldiers on the streets to fight crime, and to use the death penalty more frequently. He also supports temporarily suspending some constitutional rights in crime-ridden areas, a tactic used several times last year by incumbent President Oscar Berger...
...timeless Scotland, “La Sylphide” tells the story of beautiful ideals and possible heartbreak. James (Carlos Molina) and Effie (Melissa Hough), Scottish peasants, are about to be married. But on the day of the wedding, a beautiful, silvery sprite (Erica Cornejo)—the titular “sylph”—appears. She has a strange power over James that brings out his yearning and love, but every time he tries to touch her, she vanishes. When the sylph appears as they are about to take their wedding vows, James follows...
...With a ballet entirely driven by plot, most of the scenes harnessed an element of drama, which, though artfully rendered, often distracted from the dancing itself. As the character who drove the plot, Molina also had the strongest performance. His turns often lacked energy, but his leaps more than made up for it. Molina consistently out-danced Cornejo, despite her clear talent and clean technique...