Guyana goes to the polls

ANNA REGINA, Guyana — While Egyptians went to the polls Monday in the global spotlight, and Congolese cast their ballots amid scattered violence, people in the tiny Latin American nation of Guyana are voting to a chorus of reggae and unlikely one-liners from its laid-back leaders.

Politics in Guyana has remained untarred by the spin doctors and PR staff that stage-manage every minute of the public lives of Western leaders.