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...trouble in Peru is just beginning. Three days of ballot tallies ended last Wednesday in the announcement that a runoff vote would take place in June between the two leading candidates for the Peruvian presidency, incumbent Alberto Fujimori and opposition leader Alejandro Toledo. President Fujimori is vying for his third straight term in office, but his campaign has been recently marred by allegations of corruption. Most recently, it is likely that Fujimori tampered with the ballots. When "official" election returns suggested a Fujimori victory--even though exit polls 12 hours earlier indicated that the Peruvian president would not have...
President Alberto Fujimori's decision to accept a runoff election has walked his country back from the brink, but he's no quitter - and that suggests Peru may be in for a turbulent couple of months. The runoff was announced late Wednesday after electoral officials reported that Fujimori had narrowly failed to achieve a majority in a poll tainted by charges of vote-rigging. But that announcement may be a reflection that the president has been feeling foreign and domestic pressure over charges that he was stealing the election...
Boris Yeltsin must envy Alberto Fujimori his youth. While the Russian was forced by age and infirmity to give up on the dream, Fujimori has succeeded in conjuring up a third presidential bid even though his constitution only allows two. But Peru's voters didn't play along in Sunday's election, denying Fujimori a majority and forcing him into a runoff against Alejandro Toledo, a liberal economist whose support stood at only 4 percent some four weeks ago. Lima was wracked by protests Monday as Toledo supporters marched on the presidential palace accusing Fujimori of rigging the polls...
This totemic reduction of nature--the streamlining of a bird's body, the swish of its flight--was a prediction of the technological world to come in the second half of the century. RUNNERS-UP Guitar by Pablo Picasso; The Chariot by Alberto Giacometti...
...want to continue working and studying," Alberto said. "It would be really boring to stay at this job. I want to seguir (advance)." He has vague notions of what he might be doing in 10 years. "I'd like to have a place in a school," he replied. "Not as a teacher, I don't know if I have that ability, but maybe recruiting students, or motivating them, or giving them advice. Something in a school, though...