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Rural school teacher Pedro Castillo was largely unknown in Peru until he led a nationwide strike four years ago.

Speculation about a pardon arose after his lawmaker son Kenji broke ranks with the ex-president’s daughter Keiko, who leads the Peruvian opposition and was pushing last week to impeach President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

In early May, Keiko Fujimori addressed her supporters wearing the white-red Peru soccer jersey that has become her campaign attire as her bid for the Andean country's presidency has gained pace ahead of a run-off vote on Sunday.

Peruvians vote this weekend between presidential candidates on the extremes of the political spectrum – and it’s deepening historic divides.

Peru Election: Democracy At Risk, Pick Your Poison For President Pedro Castillo, head of the Perú Libre party, had 19% of votes in the first round - El Comercio/GDA via ZUMA Wire       Perus two presidential candidates are far from reassuring in their democratic commitments, but in a country that fought a civil war with Maoists, the communist-style Pedro Castillo may be the bigger threat. -Analysis- LIMA — On Sunday, Peru will choose its next president in the ...

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Peru (MNN) — They left behind pamphlets warning people not to vote in the election. 

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Polls show first-time candidate Pedro Castillo leading presidential daughter and former first lady Keiko Fujimori.

When a virtually unknown university rector named Alberto Fujimori entered Peru’s 1990 presidential race, few observers thought he had any chance of winning. Yet in one of the most stunning political upsets in Latin American history, Fujimori came from nowhere to defeat the world-renowned writer Mario Vargas Llosa, a future Nobel laureate, in a second-round vote.    Three decades later, Fujimori’s daughter Keiko, a former lawmaker in her third run for the country’s highest office, is fac...