Jimmy Morales, the top vote-getter in yesterday's presidential elections in Guatemala and widely expected to win the second round, is closely linked to a war criminal from the country's recent past. Edgar Justino Ovalle, a former general during the country’s genocidal civil war in the 1980s and tied to several massacres in the Quiche region, was responsible for placing Morales as presidential candidate of the National Convergence Front. teleSUR
