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	Guatemala's strategic elections - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		GUATEMALA, the country with the largest population -- 14 million people -- within the Central American Common Market (CACM) and its third largest nation, (68,056 square miles), went to the polls November 9 in elections that were considered of supreme importance to the future of the nation and the entire subregion.
		Before the election there was a persistent environment of fear that hard-liners supporting Rios Montt were planning to disrupt the election by force if the outcome was not in their favour.
		Only time will tell, but Guatemala and other countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region are now involved in a strong and deep process of democratisation with economic and social reduction of the historical gap between the haves and the have-nots.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20031208T080000-0500_52744_OBS_GUATEMALA_S_STRATEGIC_ELECTIONS.asp (877 words)

	Guatemala: Legitimacy on the line: Human Rights and the 2003 Guatemalan elections - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Guatemala is scheduled to go to the polls on 9 November 2003, to elect its new President, Vice-President and Congress in an atmosphere which Amnesty International (AI) fears could threaten the legitimacy of the country’s political, electoral and judicial institutions.
		Election years always signal an increase in human rights violations in Guatemala, and fraud, both in the lead-up to the elections and during the actual polling, is unfortunately, the normal pattern.
		Guatemala is thus facing a severe test of the legitimacy and institutionality of its courts, and its judicial and electoral processes.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAMR340512003 (8940 words)

	Guatemala, country, Central America. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Guatemala’s current constitution was adopted in 1985 and revised in 1994.
		Guatemala was first a part of the Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide and then became a nucleus of the Central American Federation.
		In the 1970 election, Col. Carlos Arana Osorio, an extreme conservative, was chosen president.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gu/Guatemal.html (1454 words)

	Guatemala (08/07)
		Guatemala's judiciary is independent; however, it suffers from inefficiency, corruption, and intimidation.
		Guatemala's social development indicators, such as infant mortality and illiteracy, are among the worst in the hemisphere.
		Guatemala is a signatory to the Rio Pact and is a member of the Conference of Central American Armed Forces (CFAC).
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2045.htm (4557 words)

	Guatemala - MSN Encarta
		Under the 1994 amendments to the constitution, executive power in Guatemala is vested in a president, who is popularly elected to a four-year term and cannot be reelected.
		In the 2003 presidential elections, the three major parties were the conservative Gran Alianza Nacional (GANA) coalition, the leftist Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE), and the FRG.
		The candidate of GANA, Óscar Berger Perdomo, won the election and was expected to form a majority coalition in Congress with UNE and PAN.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556126_7/Guatemala.html (616 words)

	The EU's relations with Guatemala - Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Government is in the opinion that Guatemala is in a position to fulfil the majority of the MDG, although further significant efforts are still required in health (maternal mortality and infantile malnutrition), education, as well as in the reduction of extreme poverty.
		Guate Crece (Guatemala Grows) is to strengthen both public and private investments and encourage the search for alliances between the public and private sectors in various areas of the local economy, especially in households, transport infrastructure (roads, ports, and airports), tourism, finances and the forest sector.
		Guatemala suffers continuous natural disasters (floods, hurricanes, droughts, etc.) aggravated by the combination of weaknesses, both in the environment itself and in the way the institutions managed the crisis.
	ec.europa.eu /comm/external_relations/guatemala/intro (3289 words)

	Guatemala election: Ex-dictator loses in bid to return to power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The winner in the Sunday, Nov. 9 election was Oscar Berger, a former mayor of Guatemala City and businessman with strong ties to Guatemala's economic elite.
		She found that prior to the November 9 presidential elections in Guatemala, the country, already reeling from rapidly deteriorating human rights conditions, was growing even more tense.
		The complaints of violations of Guatemala's electoral laws were coming in every day to the country's Human Rights Ombudsman's Office in Guatemala City and to the four civil society groups that united as a national election monitoring unit.
	www.uusc.org /info/article111003.html (742 words)

	Postelection Statement on Guatemala Elections, Dec. 30, 2003
		GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA…Carter Center representatives observed the second round of national elections in Guatemala on Dec. 28, 2003, in the departments of El Quiché, San Marcos, Totonicapán, Huehuetenango, and Suchitepéquez.
		The second round of national elections and four repeated mayoral elections were conducted in a peaceful and orderly environment.
		Of particular importance are measures to detect and punish the use of state resources during the political campaign and the direct and indirect use of duress against voters by political parties, and to guarantee fair access to political and electoral processes by indigenous peoples.
	www.cartercenter.org /news/documents/doc1573.html (1239 words)

	Guatemala
		The population of Guatemala is approximately 12 million, the majority of whom are indigenous descendants of the Mayan civilization.
		Guatemala’s spring revolution came to an abrupt end in 1954 with a CIA-backed military coup that forced the resignation and exile of President Jacobo Arbenz.
		Ideally, an election should be managed by a non-partisan agency, and one that is not interfered with by government or the ruling party.
	www.commonborders.org /guatemala1999.htm (8174 words)

	GUATEMALA: parliamentary elections Congreso de la República, 2003
		Elections were held for all the seats of the Congress of the Republic on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		Elections were held on 9 November 2003 for the Presidency, the Vice-Presidency, the 158 seats of the Congress (increased from 113), the 20 seats in the Central American Parliament and the country's 331 municipalities.
		Mr Ríos Montt was third in the pre-election opinion polls behind the former Mayor of Guatemala City, Mr Oscar Berger, the conservative head of the GANA, and Mr Alvaro Colom, a centrist-left candidate, and leader of the UNE.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2129_03.htm (690 words)

	1938: Guatemala - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		The Fascist tendency of his regime is demonstrated by his early recognition of the Franco government in Spain.
		Press judges to serve for one year as censors of newspapers and other publications were elected at the March municipal elections in Guatemala City.
		Since coffee and bananas represent approximately 90 per cent of Guatemala's export trade, the lowering of coffee prices by Brazil's cancellation of its coffee valorization program and severe windstorm damage reduced the high levels of 1937.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461500366/1938_Guatemala.html (234 words)

	Run-up to the Guatemalan Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		We were in Guatemala during the week of October 20th, in order to assess the situation in the country in the weeks leading up to the November 9th elections.
		This trip was intended to evaluate the situation through meetings with both domestic and international election observers, and through interviews with human rights activists and others, both in the capital and in the countryside.
		While none of this is surprising (and much of it is behavior that political parties engage in not only in Guatemala but throughout Central America, and in the United States as well), none of it ought to be acceptable, and both domestic and international observers ought to strongly condemn this type of behavior.
	www.wola.org /central_america/guatemala/elections_memo_oct03.htm (1665 words)

	Amnesty International USA: Make a Donation and Join Amnesty International
		Elections in Guatemala inevitably beget violence, as political parties and interest groups jockey to maintain or to gain power.
		AI also added Guatemala to the At Risk of Crisis Register, in response to fears that generalized violence on Election Day and thereafter could seriously imperil the electoral process and Guatemala's democracy.
		Now that tensions surrounding the elections have subsided, it is time for President Berger to steer Guatemala away from its recent path of political violence.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/guatemala/election_reform.html (928 words)

	Guatemalan Human Rights Testimony Before CHRC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But the forces responsible for human rights crimes in Guatemala -- political extremists and their allies in the military, and organized criminal groups with ties to the military and the state – were never fully dismantled or destroyed.
		The 2003 Presidential elections in Guatemala ought to be an opportunity for all of the major political candidates to commit themselves to strengthening the rule of law, to reforms in the police and judicial system, and to taking whatever measures are needed to break up illegal groups responsible for human rights abuses.
		For months, the political debate in Guatemala focused on whether or not retired General Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled the country for eighteen months after a military coup in 1982, was eligible to run for office.
	www.wola.org /central_america/guatemala/testimony_chrc_oct03.htm (1119 words)

	Guatemala: Berger Wins Presidency, Rios Montt Loses Immunity
		Rios Montt's electoral demise was in one sense no surprise: he was trailing by a large margin in the polls, and he had been attacked and stoned at campaign rallies, run out of town, and booed while voting.
		Nevertheless, the General's defeat was by no means a foregone conclusion Indications of pre electoral fraud, manipulation, and threats of violence had led many to question whether the elections would be fair and transparent.
		The election of President Berger has successfully replaced the military-based party of Rios Montt with its strong ties to organized crime that has been at odds with the private sector for the past four years.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Central_America/Guatemala_RMontt_Loses.html (607 words)

	PRESS RELEASES - Belize - Guatemala Relations
		The illegal detention of Belizean military and police officers in Guatemala is totally unacceptable to the Government of Belize.
		I have contacted the office of the President Of Guatemala demanding the immediate release of the Belizean officers and protesting the incursion of the Guatemalan patrol in Belizean territory.
		A copy of this note is being delivered to the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, the CARICOM Secretariat, the Association of Caribbean States and the European Union.
	www.belize-guatemala.gov.bz /press_releases/26-02-2000.shtml (864 words)

	Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Guatemala was the battlefield for a civil war that lasted from 1960 till 1996.
		The curious fact of today's elections, the first truly democratic elections in Guatemala, is that the two candidates selected by the people for the runoff both belong to the right-wing elite that ran the country during the civil war.
		Alfonso Portillo is widely believed to be simply a puppet politician in the hands of the former dictator, Rios Montt, who is going to be the speaker of the parliament.
	www.scaruffi.com /politics/guatemal.html (181 words)

	Guatemala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The few cases of violence “were not enough to tarnish the massive turnout of Guatemalans at the polls,” said former Peruvian President Valentín Paniagua, who led the OAS electoral observation mission.
		An OAS electoral observer chats with schoolchildren participating in a mock election in Guatemala, which was held during the recent presidential election and produced similar results.
		However, in comments to reporters a few days after the elections, Paniagua stressed that the voting was mostly peaceful and praised Guatemalan citizens for their determination to strengthen their democratic institutions.
	www.oas.org /oasnews/2003/Nov-Dec/English/art4.html (311 words)

	MEXIDATA AND MEXICO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Presidential elections in Guatemala are scheduled for November 9 of this year, and while the actual campaigns of the different parties’ candidates have yet to begin one fight has already broken out.
		Once again retired Brigadier General Efraín Ríos Montt wants to run for the presidency of Guatemala, and over the past several weeks the quest for power by the former dictator and two-time presidential hopeful has brought about not just legal crises and a constitutional dilemma, but political pandemonium and rioting in the streets.
		The forced retirement of Ríos Montt led him to become active in Guatemala’s evangelical religious movement, where he kept a rather high profile in part to launder his image.
	www.mexidata.info /id27.html (732 words)

	Guatemala Solidarity Network
		Guatemala Solidarity Network (GSN) supports the people of Guatemala who continue to struggle for change after centuries of oppression, violence, racism and exploitation.
		The second story talks of a factory where maquiladora workers organised, for the first time in Guatemalan history, and are facing job losses in addition to the withholding of promised back-pay.
		It was incredibly moving to hear the courageous story of his family’s struggle to come to terms with Claudina’s brutal murder and to ensure her killers are brought to justice.
	www.guatemalasolidarity.org.uk (395 words)

	NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; September 29, 1995
		Gonzalez is the candidate of the newly formed leftist Frente Democratico Nueva Guatemala (FDNG), organized in July as a coalition of some 20 labor, student, grassroots, and human rights groups.
		Juan Jose Rodil successfully registered as a candidate with the RC even though at the time he was wanted by the police on charges of corruption and theft stemming from his term as president of the Supreme Court of Justice between 1992 and 1994.
		Nobel Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu, who is working to increase voter turnout, said she fears abstentionism will be high because of "too many candidates pursuing 3.7 million voters." This, and the tendency of candidates to campaign mostly in the cities, she said, could confuse many rural voters and encourage apathy.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/notisur/h95/notisur.19950929.html (2764 words)

	Politics of Uruguay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The elections of 2004, however, brought the Encuentro Progresista-Frente Amplio-Nueva Mayoría, a coalition of socialists,former Tupamaros, communists and social democrats among others to power with majorities in both houses of parliament and the election of President Tabaré Vázquez Rosas by majority vote.
		Uruguay's first constitution was adopted in 1830, following the conclusion of a three year war in which Argentina and Uruguay acted as a regional federation.
		An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in Uruguay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Uruguay (545 words)

	Global Voices Online » Elections
		A team of bloggers not only commented on elections, but also helped people with tips, details, images and updated information during the entire process, as well as encouraging voters to exercise their right.
		President Rafael Correa and his political party is leading the way in utilizing internet technologies to spread their message, with their sights set on the elections for the Constituent Assembly.
		The fallout from the 18 August 2007 parliamentary elections is still having an impact on local and international bloggers.
	www.globalvoicesonline.org /-/topics/elections (656 words)

	Women, Peace and Security News: Guatemala
		March 11, 2005 - (Terre Libere) In Guatemala 'The Stars of the Tracks', a futboll team formed by sex workers to advocate for their rights, demand recognition of prostitution as a legitimate work decision for an adult person and to stop all kinds of violence against them.
		However, in Guatemala, their struggle dates back to long before Plan Puebla-Panama, the Free Trade Area of the Americas and other regional development schemes sounded the alarm bell about the effect of such schemes on the environment, traditional ways of life and sustainability.
		A high proportion of women in Guatemala are employed, either as domestic workers, or in the burgeoning maquila sector.
	www.peacewomen.org /news/Guatemala/news.html (2206 words)

	NDI - National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
		Against the backdrop of decreasing confidence in the 2003 elections process and expectations for low participation, NDI supported the country’s first nationwide election monitoring effort - Mirador Electoral 2003: Somos tus ojos Guatemala (Election Observer 2003: We are your eyes Guatemala).
		On election day, some 99 percent of Mirador observers submitted reports on the process, alerting the TSE to problems with indelible ink and long lines of citizens waiting to vote.
		Coup attempts in 1988 and 1989 coupled with increased violence around the country prompted NDI to observe the 1990 elections and monitor the effects of political violence during the campaign.
	www.ndi.org /worldwide/lac/guatemala/guatemala_pf.asp (976 words)

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		The stakes in the upcoming November 9 elections in Guatemala are high – they include open seats for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the Republic, 158 congressional seats, 20 seats for the Central American Parliament, and 331 mayors.
		To comply with domestic law and Guatemala’s international obligations, public information on the elections must be made available in Mayan languages as well as Spanish.
		Altogether there are nineteen ex-military candidates in this year’s elections, as well as a number of military commissioners and former paramilitary members who are behind some of the political organizing in the countryside.
	www.lawg.org /countries/guatemala/elections.htm (2418 words)

	MADRE: An International Women's Human Rights Organization > MADRE Condemns Violence Surrounding November 2003 ...
		In anticipation of the general elections on November 9, 2003, Guatemala has been submerged in overwhelming political violence characterized by persecution of and threats against journalists and members of social and human rights organizations.
		MADRE also denounces the unconstitutional presidential candidacy of the general and former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt of the Guatemalan Republican Front, and the acts of violence and intimidation carried out by his followers and sympathizers in recent months.
		MADRE demands that the Guatemalan authorities assume responsibility for the violent political atmosphere in Guatemala and ensure that the electoral process and the transition of office is carried out democratically, in accordance with the constitution.
	www.madre.org /print-/press/pr/guatemalaviolence03.html (319 words)

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