Comedian cowboy who wanted to become president, finally makes it in Guatemala

Tuesday, October 27th 2015 - 07:55 UTC

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Comedian Jimmy Morales won a landslide victory in Guatemala's presidential race Sunday despite having no political experience, after a campaign upended by a corruption scandal that felled the outgoing president. Morales, a comic actor and TV personality, declared victory after election officials released the resounding results: 68% of the vote for the conservative candidate to 32% for former first lady Sandra Torres. Read full article

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ChrisR
“Comedian Jimmy Morales won a landslide victory in Guatemala's presidential race Sunday despite having no political experience”

I don't understand the who-ar over this guy, Argentina has had a bunch o no-nothing comedians in the presidency since Bug-eyed Nestor and latterly TMBOA and look at the success they have made of the job!

HA, HA, HA.
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ilsen
haha!
Oct 28th, 2015 - 04:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Philippe
Ha. Bolivia, also has a comedian “president” for life that one, called Morales!

Philippe
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