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Share on Twitter Peruvians will pick a president on Sunday in an election that has bitterly divided them by class and geography, with urban and higher-income citizens preferring right-wing Keiko Fujimori while the rural poor support leftist political novice Pedro Castillo. Polls in the runoff election are to open at 7am (local time) in most of the country’s 11,700 voting centres, with official results starting to arrive from 11:30pm.   The voting is happening days after Peru almost tripled its coronavirus death toll following a government review. Peru now has the world's worst...

By Marco Aquino and Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA/TACABAMBA, Peru -Peruvians began voting to pick a president on Sunday in an election that has bitterly divided them by class and geography, with urban and higher-income citizens preferring right-wing Keiko Fujimori while the rural poor support leftist political novice Pedro Castillo. Polls in the runoff election began to open at 7 a.m. (1200 GMT), with long queues building up early at some centres in the capital Lima of people bundled up against the cold of the southern hemisphere late autumn. Citizens have been invited to vote according to their n...

Peruvians will pick a president on Sunday in an election that has bitterly divided them by class and geography, with urban and higher-income citizens preferring right-wing Keiko Fujimori while the rural poor support leftist political novice Pedro Castillo. The voting is happening days after Peru almost tripled its coronavirus death toll following a government review. Peru now has the world's worst coronavirus death rate per capita.

Polls show Keiko Fujimori, popular with wealthier voters, leading leftist Pedro Castillo

The Coachella City Council has approved an ordinance to offer hero pay for farmworkers. The city says it's the first in the country to adopt such a rule for the farmworker community. Given that farmworkers are deemed essential during the pandemic and due to their often cramped living conditions, COVID infection rates among farmworkers are high. Donations have been focused on COVID safety items and other protective gear for the workers in the field. "We're distributing all those items as well as hazard, dust pesticide resistant masks for farmworkers who are in season and those that aren't work...