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...stepped from his bulletproof Mercedes-Benz, cheering well-wishers mobbed President-elect Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo outside the headquarters of his Christian Democratic Party at Guatemala City's Camino Real Hotel. Cerezo, a 42-year-old lawyer, had just been declared the victor in a runoff election for the Guatemalan presidency. The second round of balloting came after national elections last month failed to produce a candidate with a majority. This time Cerezo captured 68% of the vote, soundly defeating his opponent, Newspaper Owner Jorge Carpio Nicolle, 53, of the center-right National Center Union Party. Even Christian Democratic Party leaders...
...winners was the center-left Christian Democratic Party, led by Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, 41, which captured 22 Assembly seats. Tied for first place was the moderate Union of the National Center, led by Jorge Carpio Nicolle, 51. Guatemala's traditional ultrarightist party, the Movement of National Liberation, took 21 seats. Both Cerezo and Carpio predicted that they could fashion a majority by making deals with some of the 14 other parties in the contest...
...democracy. He has fragmented an already weak opposition by allowing minor civic committees to compete with existing political parties. He also abolished the Council of State, a relatively ineffectual body that had the merit of including representatives of the country's 4.7 million Indians. Says Christian Democratic Leader Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo: "The military can accept the democratic process, but not the loss of power...
They may no longer be relevant-according to the other factions in Guatemalan politics they are not-but they are apparently considered a risk to someone: last week passing cars fired a rocket and tossed grenades into the home of the Christian Democrats' secretary-general, Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo. The attack was the third or fourth attempt on his life, he isn't exactly sure about the total. "I don't know why I'm alive at this moment," he says, smiling. "It is a little fluke...
Already accustomed to smoke from the factories that have sprung up in the region in the last decade, nearby townspeople at first paid little attention to the white chemical cloud. But they could not ignore it for long. "The wind carried it here," recalls Vinicio Lazzaretti of the small town of San Pietro. "I couldn't breathe. It made my eyes water. The next day all the leaves and plants and flowers were riddled with small holes, as if they had been struck with tiny hailstones." Within a few days, household pets in the area started to bleed...