The New York Times

Mr. Colom said he chose Dr. Espada in part because he had credibility among the elites in Guatemala that may be suspicious of him, and that decades of living in the United States reduced the likelihood that he was corrupt.

At a news conference here, he called the president’s proposals a “nondemocratic imposition that would put us into tragic retreat.”

— A former army general who once took on the insurgency in Guatemala’s long civil war lost his battle for the country’s presidency on Sunday night, with voters rejecting his plan to use an iron fist, as well as the country’s military, to control a

Tropical Storm Noel drenched the Bahamas and Cuba on Thursday while rescue workers in the Dominican Republic headed out in boats and helicopters to reach dozens of communities isolated by floods and mudslides. The death toll in the Caribbean rose to 107.