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Caribbean & Central America - September 2007 (ISSN 1741-4458)

GUATEMALA: The failure of Menchú?

As well as focusing on the close contest between presidential front-runners Alvaro Colom of the centre-left Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE) and Otto Pérez Molina of the rightwing Partido Patriota (PP), critics have also dwelled on the performance of indigenous leader Rigoberta Menchú. Running on the ticket of the Encuentro por Guatemala (EG) party, Menchú trailed behind in seventh place with 3.09% of the votes, the only one of the main candidates to see a considerable decline in her position in the polls. This in turn led to accusations that the polls have served as a instrument for manipulating voter intention.

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