Amy Goodman
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Genocide-Linked General Otto Pérez Molina Poised to Become Guatemala's Next President
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DemocracyNow.org - A retired military general has won the first round in Guatemela's presidential election, leading to a run-off election in November. If elected, General Otto Pérez Molina would become the first former military official to win the presidency since the end of the military dictatorships in 1986. Human rights groups have accused Pérez of being directly involved in the systematic use of torture and acts of genocide in Guatemala in the 1980s. Pérez has run largely on a platform of using "an iron fist" to crack down on drug cartels. Nobel Peace Prize laureate and indigenous activist, Rigoberta Menchú, is one of nine other candidates challenging Pérez. Democracy Now! discusses the election and its implications with human rights attorney, Jennifer Harbury. Her husband Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, a communist guerrilla leader, who was tortured and killed in 1992 by members of the Guatemalan army. She is the author of a book documenting her quest to undercover what happened to him called, "Searching for Everardo: A Story of Love, War & the CIA in Guatemala." She has new evidence linking General Otto Pérez Molina to her husband's death.
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