Guatemalan leader installed

Guatemala City - Prof Alfonso Portillo (48) was sworn in yesterday as the country's President.

Guatemala City - Prof Alfonso Portillo (48) was sworn in yesterday as the country's President.

Mr Portillo, of the rightwing Guatemalan Republican Front, won a landslide victory in a December 26th run-off election, the first time Guatemalans had chosen a president since the 1996 end of a 36-year civil war which resulted in the deaths of 200,000 people, mostly civilians.

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