FROM COMIC TO CANDIDATE
Guatemalan presidential candidate for the National Front of Convergence (FCN) party Jimmy Morales, shakes hands with journalists as he arrives for a press conference in Guatemala City on September 5. With Guatemalans increasingly exasperated with politics-as-usual, the long-time frontrunner in the presidential race, right-wing lawyer Manuel Baldizon, has been overtaken by Morales, the comic and political outsider. AFP PHOTO
Guatemalan presidential candidate for the National Front of Convergence (FCN) party Jimmy Morales, shakes hands with journalists as he arrives for a press conference in Guatemala City on September 5. With Guatemalans increasingly exasperated with politics-as-usual, the long-time frontrunner in the presidential race, right-wing lawyer Manuel Baldizon, has been overtaken by Morales, the comic and political outsider. AFP PHOTO
GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemalans disgusted with rampant corruption that felled their president are set to vote Sunday (Monday in Manila) in elections many see as meaningless without a vast political system cleanup.