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...delegates boycotted a vote on a number of controversial amendments. It reconvened only to stall again, reportedly over the issue of the rights of minority tribes. Right Turn GUATEMALA Conservative businessman and former Guatemala City Mayor Oscar Berger was elected President in a second-round runoff with 54% of the vote, easily beating center-left rival Alvaro Colom, who received 46%. Berger promised to boost the ailing economy by encouraging investment and stamping out the corruption that tainted the administration of outgoing President Alfonso Portillo...
...losing the mayor's race in San Francisco--and to someone who has outflanked them on the left. A TV poll last week put Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez ahead of Democratic rival Gavin Newsom, 52% to 45%, among those who say they are "certain" to vote in the runoff election...
ELECTED. KATHLEEN BLANCO, 60, a Democrat, as Governor of Louisiana; in a runoff election. Currently Lieutenant Governor, she becomes the state's first woman Governor after defeating Bobby Jindal, an Indian-American Republican...
...used to make cocaine and herbal medicines - eradicated as part of the U.S. drug war. Alternative crops like coffee usually earn only a tenth of coca's price in today's depressed global markets. These grievances helped catapult Evo Morales, an Andean Indian who represents coca farmers, into a runoff for the presidency last year. As Sánchez's government collapsed, Indian farmers flooded into La Paz to march. If Goni hadn't gone, said one, "he'd have to kill...
...Congress with his party, the Guatemalan Republican Front (frg). The prospect of a Ríos Montt presidency is a moment of high anxiety even in dysfunctional Guatemala. Polls show Ríos Montt is running a close third and gaining, and could make it to a Dec. 28 runoff. If he wins, "what little institutional credibility we have left in this country would be lost," says Frank LaRue, director of Guatemala's private Center for Human Rights Legal Action, a joint prosecutor in the genocide case against Ríos Montt, who has immunity as a member of Congress...