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Caribbean & Central America - May 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina’s first 100 days
Two polls held to coincide with President Otto Pérez Molina’s first 100 days in government gave him undeniable thumbs up. One, by CID/Gallup, revealed him to have the best rating of any new president in more than a decade; the other, by Prodatos, put his popularity at 82%. The latter poll also revealed that the mano dura (hard-handed) approach to combating crime, with which he got elected, remains his most popular policy. This strategy has received accolades from unlikely sources such as the prominent human rights NGO Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM), which attributed it explicitly to the continuing decline in the country’s murder rate.
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