Change you can laugh at
A comic moves to centre stage
AS JIMMY MORALES kept telling Guatemalan voters, he is quite different from the country’s other politicians. A well-known television comedian, he once played a cowboy who accidentally became president. Now, in a country where the looming prosecution of a former head of state has made unlikely things seem possible, life may be about to imitate art.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Change you can laugh at”
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