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Guatemala's strategic elections - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM (877 words) |
 | 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. |
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