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GUATEMALA CITY: Dark horse candidate Bernardo Arevalo scored a landslide victory in Guatemala's presidential election, final results showed on Monday (Aug 21), as he vowed to crack down on pervasive corruption. The bespectacled 64-year-old sociologist swept from obscurity in what observers see as a stingin
Guatemala's Bernardo Arevalo, who won Sunday's presidential run-off by double-digits, is looking to retrace his father's footsteps more than 70 years after Arevalo senior broke a long period of dictatorship to become the country's first democratically elected president. Juan Jose Arevalo was a reformer whose legacy of social progress during his 1945-1951 term looms large for the next leader of Central America's most populous nation. "I'm not my father, but I'm traveling down the same road he built," Arevalo said last week during his campaign's closing rally.
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Dark horse candidate Bernardo Arevalo scored a landslide victory in Guatemala's presidential election, final results showed Monday, as he vowed to crack down on pervasive corruption.