'Change is coming': Peru's Castillo faces a divided nation after election battle

[rashore]

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LIMA, July 20 (Reuters) - Peru's Pedro Castillo has won a long and tense presidential election battle. Now he needs to heal the wounds of a starkly divided nation, split between support for his socialist reforms and fears he will upend the Andean nation's traditional politics and mining.

Castillo, a wild card candidate for a Marxist party, was proclaimed the winner of the June 6 run-off on Monday night after six weeks of wrangling over the knife-edge result. He beat right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori by just 44,000 votes.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/change-is-coming-perus-castillo-faces-divided-nation-after-election-battle-2021-07-20/

 

[Autochthon1990]

Whew. That was a nail-biter. After the last half decade the last thing we need is more hard right populists ruining countries. Hopefully they'll get rid of Bolsonaro out in Brazil...or however you spell that.