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Latin American Economy & Business - November 2015 (ISSN 1741-7430)
Guatemala: What’s Jimmy going to do?
The economic policies of Guatemalan president-elect Jimmy Morales are something of a mystery. The essential facts are, first, that Morales won the second round of the presidential elections on 25 October with a decisive 68.5% of the vote, presenting himself as an anti-establishment, anti-corruption candidate (his slogan was that he was “neither corrupt nor a thief”); second, that he has no prior political or policy-making experience (although he does have a degree in business administration, and as a successful television comedian he has run his own production company for 15 years); and, third, that his six-page election manifesto said very little about economic policy.
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