Guatemala ex-general, businessman run
A center-left businessman and a conservative former general face a November runoff for Guatemala’s presidency, according to election returns Monday that showed a Nobel Peace Prize winner finishing a distant sixth. With 96 percent of the vote counted from Sunday’s election, businessman Alvaro Colom, a three-time presidential contender of the center-left National Unity of Hope Party, had 28 percent of the vote. Otto Perez, a former general from the conservative Patriot Party had 24 percent. Full Story