Her small, frail frame and severe difficulties breathing have brought her to a rehabilitation clinic several miles from where her mother and five siblings live in the Mayan village of Quajarwalten.
There were several reasons for this.
Nazarbayev permitted a relatively high degree of political activity until the emergence of a reform movement called Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, backed by several wealthy business people, in late 2001.
Several hundred supporters chanted for Erdoğan, the party's founder, but there was little sign of the huge crowds that gathered after past election victories.
Over the next two years, several prominent opposition figures were murdered in mysterious circumstances.
In the days that I followed Jones around, I heard several people who ran training programs in green professions complain that once their students had graduated they couldn't find work.
Drastic cuts in public spending any time soon, as proposed by several of these candidates, look wildly irresponsible given the headwinds the US economy is facing from abroad.
Zawahiri emerged as the "brains" of the militant group, playing a key role in several big attacks.
While Vargas has been an immigrant activist for several years, he has been a writer and reporter for more than a decade.
These are the ideal source of data, but there are several limitations with the data at this local level.
