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C AJAMARCA, IN PERU’S northern Andes, is known mainly as the place where Atahualpa, the last ruler of the Inca empire, was murdered by the Spanish conquistadors despite having paid his ransom by filling a room with gold. Today Cajamarca is the capital of a large region of struggling farmers, rough roads and modern gold mines. It still feels betrayed: the mines have brought more prosperity to the nation than to the region, which is Peru’s poorest. It is the home of Pedro Castillo, a rural sc...

April 14, 2021 In a meteoric rise from the margins of Peru’s crowded presidential race, elementary school teacher and union activist Pedro Castillo won an unexpected lead in the country’s first-round election on April 11. With almost 20 percent of the vote, he has now secured a spot in the second round, where he is expected to face off against conservative politician Keiko Fujimori. Fujimori, daughter of dictator and convicted human rights violator Alberto Fujimori, is a free market defende...

14 Apr 2021 Far-left vice presidential candidate Dina Boluarte vowed to voters in Peru this week that Lima’s middle class would “cease to be” following her running mate Pedro Castillo’s win in the first round of that country’s presidential election. Castillo, which few polls identified as a serious contender before his victory Sunday, received about 19 percent of the vote, more than any other candidate. When no candidate attracts 51 percent of the vote in the first round of Peru’s e...

3 minutes read By Carla Samon Ros Lima, Apr 12 (EFE).- Either an extreme leftist or an authoritarian rightist, a Marxist teacher or a political heir accused of money laundering. These are the two choices facing millions of Peruvian voters on Monday morning after the preliminary results of the first presidential election round were made public. According to the latest report from the ONPE national election office, with about 83 percent of the ballots counted, union leader Pedro Castillo, with ...

Castillo And Fujimori, Rivals Vying For Perus Presidency By Luis Jaime CISNEROS 04/13/21 AT 4:34 PM Far-left unionist Pedro Castillo and rightwing populist Keiko Fujimori will vie for the presidency of Peru in a runoff election on June 6, after the results of Sundays first round showed them pulling ahead of the other 16 candidates. Who are they? School teacher Castillo was largely unknown in Peru until he led a nationwide strike in 2017. The 51-year old surprised many by taking the lead -- ...

Meet the Candidates: Peru Clockwise from left: Pedro Castillo, Hernando de Soto, Keiko Fujimori and Rafael López Aliaga. A dispersed vote in Peru’s April 11 presidential election sent shockwaves through the country’s establishment, with socialist candidate Pedro Castillo securing a spot in a runoff scheduled for June 6. Castillo had received over 19% of the vote with 95% of votes counted, with Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the former president, closing in on a spot in a runoff with just ...

Peru Socialist Set to Face Fujimori in Battle of Extremes Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Matthew Bristow and Jim Wyss (Bloomberg) -- Peru’s next president will be either a little-known rural schoolteacher who vows to nationalize industries and rein in the media, or the polarizing right-wing daughter of a jailed strongman, herself out on bail for alleged corruption. With 92% of ballots counted after 18 candidates ran on Sunday, the runoff will almost certainly be between Pedro Castillo ...

CPI (MAOIST) | The ‘armed struggle’ that goes nowhere Updated: Updated: April 10, 2021 23:12 IST Maoist insurgents, despite facing desertions and counter-attacks, stick to armed struggle, continuing to target security personnel Share Article AAA Maoist insurgents, despite facing desertions and counter-attacks, stick to armed struggle, continuing to target security personnel Hurt by incarcerations and “encounter” killings of senior leaders, facing desertions due to surrenders by cadres t...

Peru braces for most fragmented election in history as pandemic grips Reuters 7 hrs ago By Marco Aquino © Reuters/SEBASTIAN CASTANEDA Perus presidential candidate Yonhy Lescano of the Accion Popular party campaign closing rally, in Lima By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peru will vote for a new president on Sunday in a wide-open election framed by a deadly surge in coronavirus cases, and under the long shadow of a constitutional crisis last year that saw the Andean nation ...

A Vaccine for Venality: Peru’s Pandemic-Era Path to a Post-Fujimori Polity A Vaccine for Venality: Peru’s Pandemic-Era Path to a Post-Fujimori Polity April 5, 2021 Image depicts protests in the city center of Lima, Peru in November 2020. In mid-February, Peruvian governmental corruption made international headlines once again when reports came out that almost 500 well-connected elites received Chinese Sinopharm vaccines before they were available to health...