Guatemala elections to serve as crucial test for democracy in Central America

Aug 19, 2023 View Original Article
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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"Torres, making her third run for president, has cast herself as the experienced continuity candidate, painting her rival as a radical intent on installing totalitarian socialism."
Positive
30% Conservative
"The crisis prompted widespread protests in Guatemala and international outcry, with the US, European Union and Organization of American States (OAS) all issuing stark warnings against election interference."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges Meadows also played a major role in her state, by working with others to overturn Biden's win in Georgia."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis alleges Meadows also played a major role in her state, by working with others to overturn Biden's win in Georgia."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Hutchinson said she heard Meadows say something like, You heard it Pat, he thinks Mike [Pence] deserves it."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Hutchinson said she heard Meadows say something like, You heard it Pat, he thinks Mike [Pence] deserves it."
Positive
10% Conservative
"What did Meadows do before working for Trump?FILE PHOTO:Mark Meadows, then a Republican congressman from North Carolina, speaks to reporters in 2017 after meeting with House Freedom Caucus members."
Positive
8% Conservative
"What did Meadows do before working for Trump?FILE PHOTO:Mark Meadows, then a Republican congressman from North Carolina, speaks to reporters in 2017 after meeting with House Freedom Caucus members."
Positive
8% Conservative
"What did Meadows do before working for Trump?FILE PHOTO:Mark Meadows, then a Republican congressman from North Carolina, speaks to reporters in 2017 after meeting with House Freedom Caucus members."
Positive
8% Conservative
"READ MORE: Who is Mark Meadows and why is he important to the Jan. 6 hearings?"
Positive
4% Conservative
"Between 2017 and 2019, Meadows chaired the House's Freedom Caucus, an ultra-conservative group of representatives he helped to found."
Positive
2% Conservative
"This file photo from 2020 shows Donald Trump departing with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows from the White House in October 2020 to travel to North Carolina for an election rally."
Positive
0% Conservative
"This file photo from 2020 shows Donald Trump departing with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows from the White House in October 2020 to travel to North Carolina for an election rally."
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0% Conservative
"Meadows was closely aligned with Trump when he represented North Carolina's 11th congressional district."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Testimony from witnesses including his assistant, Cassidy Hutchinson, and former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff Marc Short revealed Meadows was aware Pence didn't have the power to delay or change certification of the results, as Trump said he did."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Testimony from witnesses including his assistant, Cassidy Hutchinson, and former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff Marc Short revealed Meadows was aware Pence didn't have the power to delay or change certification of the results, as Trump said he did."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Testimony from witnesses including his assistant, Cassidy Hutchinson, and former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff Marc Short revealed Meadows was aware Pence didn't have the power to delay or change certification of the results, as Trump said he did."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Testimony from witnesses including his assistant, Cassidy Hutchinson, and former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff Marc Short revealed Meadows was aware Pence didn't have the power to delay or change certification of the results, as Trump said he did."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Testimony from witnesses including his assistant, Cassidy Hutchinson, and former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff Marc Short revealed Meadows was aware Pence didn't have the power to delay or change certification of the results, as Trump said he did."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Meadows fiercely defended Trump both before joining the administration and while serving as chief of staff, and was a central figure in the Jan. 6 hearings."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"After Trump left office, Meadows joined the Conservative Partnership Institute, which works to coect conservatives in Congress and support them in governing."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"After Trump left office, Meadows joined the Conservative Partnership Institute, which works to coect conservatives in Congress and support them in governing."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Meadows has filed to move his case from state to federal court, arguing that nothing he did was criminal, and that the actions he took that are now under scrutiny occurred while he was working at the federal level."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Though the attempt failed, Boehner ultimately resigned months later, a move widely attributed to discord within the party."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Former congressman and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who served during the final months of Donald Trump's presidency, was one of 18 people indicted alongside the former president for allegedly participating in a wide-ranging effort to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Former congressman and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who served during the final months of Donald Trump's presidency, was one of 18 people indicted alongside the former president for allegedly participating in a wide-ranging effort to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results."
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-18% Liberal
"In a June 2022 public hearing, Hutchinson testified under oath that when Meadows was alerted to the violence at the Capitol, he did not take action."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"In 2015, he opposed the reelection of Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, as speaker of the House, and tried to remove him from office."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"What is Meadows' coection to Trump?"
Negative
-24% Liberal
"What is Meadows' coection to Trump?"
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The indictment names Meadows as part of a criminal enterprise that sought to illegally change the outcome of the election in favor of the former president, who is also facing new charges."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Meadows is not believed to be among the six co-conspirators included in special investigator Jack Smith's federal indictment of Trump."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Read the full Georgia indictment against Trump and 18 alliesLong before the Georgia indictment, Trump's former top aide was a key figure in the House Jan. 6 committee's investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol."
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-38% Liberal
"Read the full Georgia indictment against Trump and 18 alliesLong before the Georgia indictment, Trump's former top aide was a key figure in the House Jan. 6 committee's investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Under Georgia's RICO (or racketeering) law, Meadows is accused of committing or participating in several acts as part of that conspiracy."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Entering Congress during the tea party movement, Meadows was instrumental in rallying Republicans around the 2013 federal government shutdown over former President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act."
Positive
20% Conservative
"Entering Congress during the tea party movement, Meadows was instrumental in rallying Republicans around the 2013 federal government shutdown over former President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act."
Positive
20% Conservative
"In early 2020, just before COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, Trump replaced Mick Mulvaney - his acting chief of staff of more than a year - with Meadows."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"In early 2020, just before COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, Trump replaced Mick Mulvaney - his acting chief of staff of more than a year - with Meadows."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"In early 2020, just before COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, Trump replaced Mick Mulvaney - his acting chief of staff of more than a year - with Meadows."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump, reads the indictment from Fulton County District Attorney Fani WIllis."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump, reads the indictment from Fulton County District Attorney Fani WIllis."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"In comparison to Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and legal adviser John Eastman, Meadows is mentioned fewer times, and often cited as playing a supporting role, like seeking out phone numbers or joining a call, including a now-infamous conversation with Trump and former Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump asked Raffensperger to find 11,780 votes, enough for him to win Georgia."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"In comparison to Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and legal adviser John Eastman, Meadows is mentioned fewer times, and often cited as playing a supporting role, like seeking out phone numbers or joining a call, including a now-infamous conversation with Trump and former Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump asked Raffensperger to find 11,780 votes, enough for him to win Georgia."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"In comparison to Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and legal adviser John Eastman, Meadows is mentioned fewer times, and often cited as playing a supporting role, like seeking out phone numbers or joining a call, including a now-infamous conversation with Trump and former Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump asked Raffensperger to find 11,780 votes, enough for him to win Georgia."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"In comparison to Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and legal adviser John Eastman, Meadows is mentioned fewer times, and often cited as playing a supporting role, like seeking out phone numbers or joining a call, including a now-infamous conversation with Trump and former Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump asked Raffensperger to find 11,780 votes, enough for him to win Georgia."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"Meadows is one of 18 co-conspirators charged alongside Trump under the state's RICO law, which is often used to prosecute criminal organizations."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"Meadows is one of 18 co-conspirators charged alongside Trump under the state's RICO law, which is often used to prosecute criminal organizations."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"Meadows is accused of organizing other phone calls for Trump, texting a Georgia official about whether financial assistance from the Trump campaign would speed up a vote verification process and traveling to the state in an attempt to oversee an election audit that was not open to the public, all of which furthered the conspiracy, according to Willis."
Negative
-54% Liberal
"Meadows is accused of organizing other phone calls for Trump, texting a Georgia official about whether financial assistance from the Trump campaign would speed up a vote verification process and traveling to the state in an attempt to oversee an election audit that was not open to the public, all of which furthered the conspiracy, according to Willis."
Negative
-54% Liberal
"Willis alleges the co-conspirators routinely lied about the results of the election publicly, solicited an alternate slate of electors to vote for Trump in the electoral college and harassed election workers, though Meadows himself is not directly implicated in those acts."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"Willis alleges the co-conspirators routinely lied about the results of the election publicly, solicited an alternate slate of electors to vote for Trump in the electoral college and harassed election workers, though Meadows himself is not directly implicated in those acts."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"Hutchinson added that Meadows said Trump didn't believe the rioters were doing anything wrong."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"Hutchinson added that Meadows said Trump didn't believe the rioters were doing anything wrong."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"Those racketeering charges -- and the lengths to which Trump, Meadows and the other alleged co-conspirators went to keep Trump in power -- comprise the majority of the 98-page indictment."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"Those racketeering charges -- and the lengths to which Trump, Meadows and the other alleged co-conspirators went to keep Trump in power -- comprise the majority of the 98-page indictment."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"Those racketeering charges -- and the lengths to which Trump, Meadows and the other alleged co-conspirators went to keep Trump in power -- comprise the majority of the 98-page indictment."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"She said she overheard a conversation between Meadows and White House lawyer Pat Cipollone, who told Meadows felt they needed to do something because the mob was calling for Pence to be hanged."
Negative
-60% Liberal
"She said she overheard a conversation between Meadows and White House lawyer Pat Cipollone, who told Meadows felt they needed to do something because the mob was calling for Pence to be hanged."
Negative
-60% Liberal
"She said she overheard a conversation between Meadows and White House lawyer Pat Cipollone, who told Meadows felt they needed to do something because the mob was calling for Pence to be hanged."
Negative
-60% Liberal
"The year before, Meadows made racist comments about Obama, saying he should go back home to Kenya or wherever, for which he later apologized."
Positive
2% Conservative
"The year before, Meadows made racist comments about Obama, saying he should go back home to Kenya or wherever, for which he later apologized."
Positive
2% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% :Torres, making her third run for president, has cast herself as the experienced continuity candidate, painting her rival as a radical intent on installing totalitarian socialism.
40% : The crisis prompted widespread protests in Guatemala and international outcry, with the US, European Union and Organization of American States (OAS) all issuing stark warnings against election interference.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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