"She got a divorce because of her ambition and love of money," shopkeeper Dulce Álvarez told IPS, about Guatemalan former First Lady Sandra Torres' decision to end her marriage in order to sidestep the legal bar to the president's family members running for the presidency.
Like Álvarez, various Guatemalan women's groups and their leaders said the controversial decision by the wife of President Álvaro Colom, whose term ends in 2012, was "unethical", although others have viewed it as a reaction to "the marginalisation women are subjected to in this country."
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"She got a divorce because of her ambition and love of money," shopkeeper Dulce Álvarez told IPS, about Guatemalan former First Lady Sandra Torres' decision to end her marriage in order to sidestep the legal bar to the president's family members running for the presidency.
Like Álvarez, various Guatemalan women's groups and their leaders said the controversial decision by the wife of President Álvaro Colom, whose term ends in 2012, was "unethical", although others have viewed it as a reaction to "the marginalisation women are subjected to in this country."
For more information, please visit: IPS