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Peru: Five things to know

After a presidential period (2016-2021) marked by institutional setbacks and with four incumbents in charge, Peru is playing its luck in a polarized a

The choice between Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori offers voters no middle ground.

The financial markets were in the top ten when the Peruvian people voted on Sunday in one of the most polarized elections in the country’s history, wi

This Sunday, voters in Peru will elect a new president. The choice they face is between Keiko Fujimori, a center-right candidate and the daughter of disgraced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, and Pedro Castillo, a schoolteacher and union leader.

The south american country is so polarized that the two candidates who made it to the second round are extreme opposites whose combined vote in the first round didnt even reach 33%. on the far left, pedro castillo is an elementary schoolteacher and union leader from a marxist-leninist party who became known for leading a strike in 2017. the 51-year-old denies that hes a communist. hes also been accused in the past of being a member of shining path, a terrorist group, but he has rejected those ac...

>> reporter: they make candidates sign a pledge promising they will walk away. religious leaders convinced both presidential candidates to make such a pledge and to do it in public. the south american country is so polarized that the two candidates who made it to the second round are extreme opposites whose combined vote in the first round didnt even reach 33%. on the far left, pedro castillo is an elementary schoolteacher and union leader from a marxist-leninist party who became known for leadi...

Vote pits the daughter of jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori, against Castillo, a little-known hard-Left rural school teacher

Novelist Carlos Dávalos says his homeland has an unenviable choice in bitterly divisive presidential election

Two candidates with drastically different visions for Peru's future face off in a presidential run-off vote on Sunday, polarizing an electorate battered by the pandemic.