Profile: Guatemala’s new president Alvaro Colom Caballeros

Alvaro Colom, a 57-year-old industrial engineer and textile businessman, was sworn in on Monday as Guatemala’s president for a 4-year term at a ceremony at the Miguel Angel Asturias National Theatre in central Guatemala City, according to news reaching here.

During his election campaign, he promised to promote free markets and reduce inequality focusing on the following areas — fighting poverty and crime via social spending, generating jobs via investment promotion, and purging the police and the courts of corruption.”*

*From: http://news.xinhuanet.com
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