Rigoberta Menchu on CNN

Frente Amplio presidential candidate Rigoberta Menchu was interviewed by Ismael Cala Wednesday night on CNN. Here's the interview.

I didn't think that Menchu was an inspiring candidate for a left that was trying to reinvigorate itself in Guatemala. She ran poorly in 2007 and only captured 3% of the national vote. She was well-known throughout the country at the beginning of the campaign and therefore there was little chance that she was going to bring new voters to the party. At best, she was going to keep Winaq in the alliance.

It's too bad. The left could have capitalized to a certain extent on the governing party's self-inflicted wound.