Related: Peru Lurches Left
Why would they do that, American?
"Leftist leads Peru presidential runoff" by Associated Press / June 6, 2011
LIMA — Retired army Lieutenant Colonel Ollanta Humala won a tight presidential runoff yesterday against the daughter of the imprisoned former president, Alberto Fujimori, according to an unofficial vote count.
Humala, a leftist who has promised the poor a greater share of the nation’s mineral wealth, led with about 51 percent of the vote, against 49 percent for Keiko Fujimori, the independent Transparencia election watchdog group said.
The count represents 90 percent of voting.
Humala, 48, narrowly lost the 2006 presidential election to Alan Garcia. He is backed largely by poor Peruvians, who have not benefited from a mining bonanza that fueled economic growth averaging 7 percent annually since 2001.
Fujimori, 36, who would be Peru’s first female leader, became the refuge of the pro-business status quo after the April 10 first round, when three candidates split the centrist vote, together amassing 45 percent.
Fujimori’s base has long been those who consider her father a hero for vanquishing both hyperinflation and fanatical Shining Path rebels during his autocratic presidency in 1990-2000 and who forgive his sins....
Many voters’ consider both candidates a potential threat to democracy given their human rights credentials. Some decided to mark their ballots “neither’’ in protest.
Both candidates are populists who promise a raft of giveaways for the poor, including free school meals and preschool care....
But Humala, unlike his foe, insists on taxing windfall mining profits and exporting less natural gas so it is cheaper for Peruvians.
We shall $EE how FAR he gets with this.
Some voters fear the election of Fujimori would be a rerun of her father’s autocratic regime, which Transparency International deemed the seventh most corrupt of modern times.
WOW!
And he was a HERO, huh?
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"Leftist narrowly wins Peru presidency" June 07, 2011|Associated Press
LIMA — A leftist former army officer with questioned human rights credentials narrowly won Peru’s presidency in a bitterly fought runoff with the daughter of Alberto Fujimori, the disgraced ex-president.
Ever notice the human rights record is rarely questioned when it comes to allies and stooges?
Ollanta Humala, 48, won Sunday after softening his radical image and disavowing the affinity for Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez that fueled his defeat in a first run for the presidency five years earlier.
Not all were convinced by the makeover: Peru’s stock market nose-dived yesterday, falling 12 percent by midday.
That was the GLOBAL CONTROLLERS using CAPITAL FLIGHT to send a MESSAGE!
Humala promises Peru’s poor a greater share of the Andean nation’s considerable mineral wealth and pledged in victory to honor the free market but put Peruvians first.
The money men that rule this planet hate hearing that.
The former army lieutenant colonel won 51.5 percent of the vote against 48.5 percent for Keiko Fujimori, according to complete unofficial results compiled by the independent election watchdog Transparencia....
Humala told supporters Sunday night he would work to convert a decadelong economic boom that is the envy of Latin America into “the great motor of the social inclusion Peruvians desire.’’
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