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  Given Peru’s recent past it would be understandable if few people were willing to put their names forward for Sunday’s presidential election. The presidential sash seems cursed. One former president is in the US fighting extradition home to face corruption charges. His successor took his own life as police knocked on his door. A third spent nine months in jail on remand, while his impeached successor is under house arrest and the two men who followed him, also bundled out early, ar...

Fury in Peru after officials secretly received vaccine before health workers Simeon Tegel, The Washington Post Feb. 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail LIMA, Peru - When interim president Francisco Sagasti finally unveiled Perus first coronavirus vaccine deal last month, Peruvians wearied by nearly a year of twin health and economic crises compounded by the countrys recent political turmoil glimpsed a light at the end of the tunnel. As ICU doctors and nurses this month began receiving their shots fr...