GUATEMALA CITY — An uncomfortable challenge confronted Guatemala’s presidential candidates on Sunday: trying to win the votes of a nation that has put the last elected leader in court custody.
Most are old-guard candidates picked to run before energized prosecutors backed by a mass anti-corruption movement toppled the previous administration. Many voters are so skeptical that they campaigned for the election itself to be postponed to give them a new crop of choices.
Demonstrators hold defaced campaign posters of presidential hopeful Manuel Baldizon, of the Democratic Freedom Revival Party, as they demand election reform in Guatemala City, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015, the day before general elections. AP Photo/Moises Castillo
