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Monday 12 august 2019

Guatemalans to vote in close presidential runoff

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — a textile and apparel com-
Guatemalans voted Sun- pany. Her campaign plat-
day in a presidential run- form has focused on im-
off pitting former first lady proving education, health
Sandra Torres against con- care and the economy.
servative Alejandro Giam- She also has proposed an
mattei in a nation beset anti-corruption program,
by poverty and unemploy- but her Unity for Hope party
ment, and dealing with mi- has come under fire be-
gration issues. cause some of its mayoral
Giammattei, making his candidates have been ac-
fourth bid for the presiden- cused of receiving contri-
cy, is the favorite in a CID- butions from drug traffick-
Gallup poll which surveyed ers for their campaigns.
1,216 people between July Polling stations opened at
29 and Aug. 5. The poll es- 7:00 a.m. local time and
timated support for Giam- close at 6:00 p.m., with pre-
mattei at 39.5%, compared liminary results expected
to 32.4% for Torres. It had a by late Sunday. There are
margin of error of 2.8 points. about 8 million registered
Running for the conserva- voters, but boosting turnout
tive Vamos party, Giam- above 50% will be a chal-
mattei has earned a repu- This combination of file photos shows presidential candidate Sandra Torres in Villanueva, Guate- lenge. Rogelio Estrada, a
mala, on June 14, 2019, and her opponent Alejandro Giammattei in Guatemala City on June 13,
tation of being tough on 2019. 45-year-old father of two,
crime and wants to re- Associated Press was one of the first people
introduce the death pen- to vote at a polling station
alty. The 63-year-old doc- rosis, stridently opposes gay Torres was married to — lom (2008-2012), but has in Guatemala City. He said
tor, who uses crutches be- marriage and abortion and and later divorced — for- a record of her own as a corruption was his main
cause he has multiple scle- endorses family values. mer President Álvaro Co- businesswoman, having run concern.q

Student dies from stray bullet on way to school in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An Some residents, however, data from Fogo Cruzado, a
18-year-old student was told The Associated Press group that monitors shoot-
killed Friday in Rio de Janei- there was an exchange of ings in the area. Thirty-one
ro, hit by a stray bullet on gunfire between criminals of those people have died,
his way to school, the latest and the police. it said. In the first six months
victim of the city's violence. Dozens of angry residents of the year, Fogo Cruzado
The stray bullet reportedly of Morro do Borel blocked recorded 4,169 shootings,
came from a shooting in the road where Alves died. or about 23 a day.
the nearby Morro do Borel "This has to stop!" shouted "I imagine going to work
slum, in the north of the Jaiane Cristina, a cous- and receiving a phone
city. The bullet hit Gabriel in of Alves' mother who call telling me my son was
Ferreira Alves in the torso was standing a few me- found dead on the street. I
while he was waiting for the ters (yards) from where he don't want this for my son, I
bus that would take him to was shot. Some held signs don't want this for anyone,"
school. saying "Another innocent Cristina yelled.
Residents hold up a sign that reads in Portuguese "Borel asks for
peace. Borel asks for Justice", referring the Borel slum, and with The military police said in a death." Tensions eventually rose
an image of student Gabriel Pereira Alves who was killed by a statement that members Alves is one of 110 people between the protesters
stray bullet on his way to school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, of a local police unit were hit by stray bullets in the and police officers, who
Aug. 9, 2019. shot at by criminals but the Rio metropolitan area so used tear gas to disperse
Associated Press officers did not shoot back. far this year, according to the small crowd.q