from SLATE's summary of today's major US newspapers (which somehow misses
Tim's journal) --
>Alejandro Toledo's victory in the Peruvian presidential race comes
>slightly more than a year after disgraced former president Alberto
>Fujimori rigged an election and defeated the Toledo-led opposition. All
>the papers emphasize Toledo's working class cred, pointing out that was a
>shoe-shine boy and is the son of a mountain sheep herder. The NY [TIMES],
>though, goes a bit ga-ga with a headline describing him as the "Peruvian
>Son of the Poor..." The papers also remark that Toledo will be the first
>Peruvian president of Indian
>descent. (Except the NYT, which is apparently more expert in these
>matters: "Toledo is the first presidential candidate with strongly Indian
>physical features elected since Gen. Luis M. Sanchez Cerro in 1931.") Not
>all the news from Peru is upbeat. Thirteen percent of Peruvians cast blank
>ballots. That's partially a response to reports that Toledo may have
>sizable skeletons in his closet. According to the WP, Toledo faces
>allegations that he beat his wife, had a child out of wedlock, and
>"high-ranking Peruvian officials say they have seen a videotape of him
>using cocaine in a 1998 orgy with five prostitutes."
any pen-l thoughts? as a professional economist, I must admit that I'm
worried that Toledo is a US-trained economist...
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
