GuatemalaCity: Bernardo Arevalo swept from obscurity to become president ofGuatemala, his anti corruption crusade winning the hearts of voters who had.
GUATEMALA CITY Guatemalans voted on Sunday in a presidential runoff marked by the harassment of a surprise frontrunner, who has fired up voters with his promises to end the rot of corruption.The race pits reformist outsider Bernardo Arevalo against former first lady Sandra Torres, both social democrats, meaning Guatemala will have its first leftist leader in over a
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Bernardo Arevalo swept from obscurity to become president of Guatemala, his anti-corruption crusade winning the hearts of voters who had long given up hope of change in the troubled nation.
Uruguayan-born Bernardo Arévalo de León of the center-left Semilla (Seed) Movement, a sociologist with a PhD in Philosophy and also the son of a former head of state, will become Guatemala s next president after Sunday s landslide at the runoff victory over former First Lady Sandra Torres Casanova of the National Unity of Hope (UNE)