Encuentro por Guatemala

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Encuentro por Guatemala ("EG") – a Spanish name variously translated as "Encounter for Guatemala" (for example, by the BBC^[1] and CNN^[2]), or as "Together for Guatemala" (Reuters^[3]) – is a Guatemalan political party. It is closely affiliated with the Winaq political organization that works to promote the rights of the country's indigenous peoples.

Its logo is a red circle with four green dots on its circumference, representing the coming together of the four peoples that make up the Guatemalan nationality: Mayas, Garifunas, Xincas and Ladinos.

[edit] 2007 election

The party was founded in 2007, in the run-up to that year's 9 September general election. Its presidential candidate was Rigoberta Menchú, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning indigenous activist, running on a ticket with businessman Luis Fernando Montenegro as her vice-presidential hopeful. They secured 3.09% of the popular vote.

In the Congressional election held on the same day, the party fared somewhat better, receiving 6.17% of the popular vote, which was enough to secure them four national-list deputies in Congress for the 2008–12 legislative period: Armando Sánchez Gómez, Rodolfo Aníbal García, Nineth Montenegro and Otilia Lux.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Encuentro por Guatemala party web site
• ¿Qué es Encuentro por Guatemala?
• ¿Qué es Winaq?

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