The two candidates offer starkly different paths forward as the nation confronts widespread poverty and violence that has driven hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans to emigrate in recent years.
This photo combo of file images shows from left, Sandra Torres, National Unity of Hope, UNE, presidential candidate, in Guatemala City, Aug. 18, 2023, and Bernardo Arévalo, Seed Movement presidential candidate, in Guatemala City, July 13, 2023.This photo combo of file images shows from left, Sandra Torres, National Unity of Hope, UNE, presidential candidate, in Guatemala City, Aug. 18, 2023, and Bernardo Arévalo, Seed Movement presidential candidate, in Guatemala City, July 13, 2023.
Early on Sunday, residents of Santo Domingo Xenacoj lined up to vote at the local primary school. The Volcano of Fire puffed in the distance as men in jackets and women in traditional embroidered blouses wrapped in shawls against the chill came out to vote. "There's no work, of everything went up," he said."Sometimes there's no work and there are poor who go hungry."
Torres, in her closing campaign event Friday in Guatemala City's sprawling central market, suggested she would not accept a result that didn't go her way."We're going to defend vote by vote because today democracy is at risk because they want to steal the elections," she said. "We're not going to let them influence our children with strange and foreign ideologies," she said Friday.
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