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Preview of Guatemalan elections

(5 Nov 2003) 1. Rally with sign reading: "Do not forget us when voting" 2. People carrying crosses at rally 3. Crosses lying on the ground 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Apolinaria Lopes, relative of alleged victims: "I am here to claim my family was killed, I'm here to ask for the responsible people to be shown." 5. Poster showing picture of Rios Montt, which reads: "Wanted, for crimes in 1982" 6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Apolinaria Lopes, relative of alleged victims: "My Mum, my three brothers, we ask for justice, for punishment to those responsible, for Lucas, for Rios Montt, for the ones who ordered the killings." 7. UPSOUND (Spanish) Zuri Rios, daughter of Rios Montt: "We will elect the new President of Guatemala. And no matter how much it hurts, the majority has a voice, and the majority wants Rios Montt." 7. Political rally 8. UPSOUND (Spanish) General Rios Montt speaking to "campesinos": "This is a very important thing we have to do today, the law is on our side and it says the people are the ones to speak via the vote, they own the nation." 9. Political meeting of supporters of Berger 10. Berche holding carrot 11. Poster of Berger 12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Berger, Candidate of the Gran Alianza National: "We insist that if we have problems, violence, if we have clashes, we'll come to defend the voting people, we'll defend all supporters of the Great National Alliance as they make their voice heard through votes." 13. Photographer 14. Rally 15. Alvaro Colon, leader of National Union of Hope (UNE) on stage 16. Wide of rally 17. Leader on stage 18. Candle light vigil 19. UPSOUND (Spanish) Alvaro Colon, leader of National Union of Hope (UNE): "That General (Rios Montt) speaks of morality, shameless, he speaks of God, but he is a rotten General, a corrupt one, a thief. He still has blood on his hands from the 447 dead he ordered." 20. Fireworks at end of Colon's campaign STORYLINE: Candidates vying to become Guatemala's next president officially closed their political campaigns on Wednesday ahead of Sunday's national vote. Guatemalans will choose a new President on Sunday from among seven candidates. Polls suggest there are three candidates leading the race. Conservative former Guatemala City Mayor Oscar Berger, who heads the Great National Alliance (GANA), is first in the national polls. Running second is the left-leaning leader of The National Union of Hope (UNE), Alvaro Colon. Leading the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) and in third place in the polls is former dictator Efrain Rios Montt. Rios Montt, a former iron-fisted dictator and evangelical minister has said if he is elected he will look to God for the answer to Guatemala's problems and construct a strict legal and religious code that would lead the country to prosperity. Montt has also said he believes Guatemala can battle soaring crime rates, stamp out corruption and improve a sluggish economy by following the Christian code. He took power in a coup in March 1982 and was deposed in another military uprising the following August. While in office, he imposed a curfew, ordered strict restrictions on the sale and consumption of alcohol, and gave podium-pounding television addresses every Sunday, singing the praises of evangelical values for an audience that was overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. Montt's dictatorship came at the height of a brutal 36-year civil war between the government and leftist, largely Mayan guerrillas. He ordered an anti-insurgency campaign in which soldiers burned down mountain villages to cut rebels off from civilians accused of supporting them. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...