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Bernardo Arevalo, Guatemala's next president, follows in father's footsteps

Guatemala,General News

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GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Guatemala's Bernardo Arevalo, who won Sunday's presidential run-off by double-digits, is looking to retrace his father's footsteps more than 70 years after Arevalo senior broke a long period of dictatorship to become the country's first democratically elected president. Juan Jose Arevalo was a reformer whose legacy of social progress during his 1945-1951 term looms large for the next leader of Central America's most populous nation. "I'm not my father, but I'm traveling down the same road he built," Arevalo said last week during his...

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