Today, 25m Peruvians vote in the second round of a crucial Presidential
election. The voters are being asked to choose between two candidates.
The first and leading in the polls is ‘self-confessed’ socialist Pedro
Castillo, 51 years old, a schoolteacher, based Cajamarca, one of the
poorest regions of Peru and home to South America’s largest gold mine. A
leader of a teachers’ union since 1995, he has been a schoolteacher in
the village of Puña in the northern Chota province.
His opponent is Keiko Fujimori, daughter offormer president Alberto
Fujimori
<https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/09/inenglish/1447072270_987027.html>.
Aged 45, she has spent most of the last two years inpre-trial detention
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/01/keiko-fujimori-perus-former-first-lady-sent-back-to-jail-ahead-of-bribery-trial>,
accused of money laundering and running a criminal organisation, which
she denies. Her father, Alberto Fujimori, governed Peru in the 1990s and
was convicted over death squad killings and rampant corruption
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/03/peru-high-court-overturns-pardon-alberto-fujimori>.
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/peru-a-crunch-election/
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