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Peter Koenig
Video dateline: June 16, 2021
The left s candidate, Pedro Castillo, is claiming victory at this point, but his winning margin is extremely thin, about 44,000 ballots out of 16 MM cast. Meanwhile, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of disgraced president and autocrat Alberto Fujimori, is charging voting fraud and asking for a recount. Keiko represents Peru s bourgeois sectors, from the upper class to many in the anti-communist middle class. It is a foregone conclusion that, as the left stages victories in Bolivia and now possibly Peru, and with broad anti-establishment protests in Chile, Ecuador and recently even Colombia, easily one of the most brutally repressive countries in the world, Washington is moving its secret assets to roll back and smash this social change tide. Indeed, from a purely democratic standpoint, Keiko Fujimori s political dynasty credentials are a joke: