Guatemala city during elections

I arrived in Guatemala last night. seems safe to me. Spoke to the shuttle bus driver about it and the spanish school teacher. In fact i'd rather be here than in Australia right now where the pre election stuff was annoying.

This is a pretty mild election. What deaths there were are from lower echelon folks. All indications are most ballots will be counted before the winner is announced.

If you are worried about it, as you say you are, seems to me there is a simple solution. Just leave the day before the announcement.

Buen viaje!

Hey guys..the winner Colom Argueta, was announced last night a few hours after the polls closed. The losing candidate, the General, accepted his defeat and the will of the majority of the guatemalan people. Thank god no acts of violence have been reported so far. So, everything went real smooth.

Although an anouncement from Spanish world news said, there would be riots in the Guatemalan capital city, I found up that the run-out election went smoothly as supposed to go in a democratic country such as Guatemala. #4 wrote that Alvaro Colom Argueta is the winner and I have a remembrance that his uncle another Colom Argueta (Manuel) was not only elected the Guatemala City Mayor but he was also a presidential candidate on one time in the history of Guatemala. Manuel was not supposed to good for the Mayoral office but he made some changes and try to fix the transportation problems that the majority of Guatemalans had/and/still have facing more deaths that the violence upon the owners of those public transport made the highlights in every daily-tabloid news. So, it is an old-inherited issue of how and what the Guatemalan are facing every day in that populous urban city with which its more than 2,541,581 millions people that are in necessity of use public transport to reach their destinies are not been reached by the government. I do not know if the new flamboyant president will be motivated to reach that issue and try to change things in order that those people that has already too much to do with the economy of the progresive Guatemala made their step-go-up to the ladder of success for its society; I hope that the standard of living of the majority of Guatemalans will move up the hierarchy for progress as an equality to all that are in such a need. We will see if this happens in the near future.
Thanks!