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

(Bloomberg) -- It was a scene chillingly reminiscent of an era Peruvians thought was behind them: 16 people, including children, massacred in a jungle village by what authorities said was an offshoot of the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path.

Además, el experto en temas de terrorismo y narcotráfico, comentó que el vídeo difundido fue grabado por las zonas cocaleras colindantes al Ene, muy cerca al lugar donde se realizo la matanza en Vraem

  In Mario Vargas Llosa’s 2016 novel The Neighbourhood, the regime of Alberto Fujimori, which ran Peru in the 1990s, is characterised as “authoritarian, kleptomaniac, manipulative and criminal” by one of its own apparatchiks. That the country’s Nobel laureate would write unsparingly about the sinister nature of the dictatorship is not surprising. Vargas Llosa, who lost a presidential election to Alberto in 1990, has been a trenchant critic of the Fujimori clan for over 30 y...

Huge billboards across Lima’s main avenues read like cheap Cold War propaganda: “Peru says no to communism”, “Socialism leads to communism”, and “Think about your children’s future”, are just three of the many panic-inducing slogans. Nobody knows who’s paying for the expensive advertisement and nobody cares, including the government agencies created to stop this kind […]

Communist, Conservative Peruvian Presidential Contenders Tied a Week Away from Election SEBASTIAN CASTANEDA/X07403/AFP via Getty 1 Jun 2021 Radical leftist Pedro Castillo and hardline conservative Keiko Fujimori are stuck in a statistical tie less than a week before Peru’s June 6 presidential elections, polls showed on Monday. Castillo, of the Marxist Free Peru party, and Fujimori, of the right-wing Popular Force party, are facing off a second time after no candidate succeeded in receiving ov...

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Demonstrators carried white banners with the letter "k", Fujimori's symbol. Others, like Luis Solis, said that their presence at the march was not in support of Fujimori but a march against communism and terrorism.

Fujimori, whose first name means "Blessed daughter" in Japanese, has spent half her life in politics, initially against her will, she has said. When her parents split in 1994, when she was 19, she became stand-in first lady, later breaking ties with her brother in a tussle for the political mantle once held by their father.  Alberto Fujimori, of Japanese descent, is remembered fondly by some for how he dealt with the then-twin problems of hyperinflation and terror, but is in jail today for cr...

Photo: AFP 10:32 | Lima, May. 26. The European Union (EU) has condemned the murder of 16 people, which occurred on Sunday night in the town of San Miguel de Ene, located in the Valley of Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro Rivers (VRAEM). "The EU condemns the killing of civilians —including children— in the VRAEM region. This is a heinous crime that cannot go unpunished," Borrell stated. He also said he is confident that the Peruvian justice system will conduct an investigatio...