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As a TV comedian, Jimmy Morales has played bumbling drunks, spies, gangsters, a toga-wearing Socrates, even a blackface character with an Afro wig and a painted white mouth. Among the plots of his Guatemalan comedy bits was a cowboy who accidentally became president
Morales is poised to ride this unlikely background all the way to the real presidential palace. After President Otto Pérez Molina and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, were both thrown in jail for alleged corruption, Guatemalans became so disillusioned with their politicians that Morales and his outsider candidacy surged in the polls. During the first round of the presidential elections this month, Morales came in first, edging out former first lady Sandra Torres. His campaign slogan was plain and simple: “Not corrupt, not a thief.”
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http://amestrib.com/news/former-comedian-morales-poised-be-guatemala-s-president#sthash.VwdaHSsV.dpuf
Morales is poised to ride this unlikely background all the way to the real presidential palace. After President Otto Pérez Molina and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, were both thrown in jail for alleged corruption, Guatemalans became so disillusioned with their politicians that Morales and his outsider candidacy surged in the polls. During the first round of the presidential elections this month, Morales came in first, edging out former first lady Sandra Torres. His campaign slogan was plain and simple: “Not corrupt, not a thief.”
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http://amestrib.com/news/former-comedian-morales-poised-be-guatemala-s-president#sthash.VwdaHSsV.dpuf