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...wacky bits kept coming. Shortly after the devastating earthquake that leveled the Peruvian city of Pisco, cans of tuna bearing pictures of Chavez and former leftist Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala were handed out as relief aid. The Venezuelan government said it had no idea how the cans got there; state television even interviewed a pro-Chavez artist who bizarrely suggested that the tuna cans were, in fact, a "racist" statement inciting support for the invasion of Iraq. That was too much for the show's moderator, who replied that they were actually no more than tuna cans. Still, this...
ELECTED. Alan Garcia, 57, President of Peru from 1985 to 1990; to a new term as President, in a victory over fellow leftist Ollanta Humala, an ally of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez; in Lima. By choosing Garcia-whose earlier tenure saw the explosion of guerrilla violence and 7,500% inflation-many Peruvians said they were rejecting the anti-Americanism of Chávez, whom Garcia dubbed a "midget dictator with a big wallet...
ELECTED. Alan Garcia, 57, President of Peru from 1985 to 1990; to a new term as President, in a victory over fellow leftist Ollanta Humala, an ally of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez's; in Lima. By choosing Garcia--whose earlier tenure saw the explosion of guerrilla violence and 7,500% inflation--many Peruvians said they were rejecting the anti-Americanism of Chavez, whom Garcia dubbed a "midget dictator with a big wallet...
...left-wing nationalist and 24-year veteran of the Peruvian Army, Humala himself has been accused of torturing and killing suspected guerrillas during the country's war against terrorism and the Shining Path in the early 1990s, charges he flatly denies. His only political activity before launching his campaign was a brief, unsuccessful uprising against then-President Fujimori in October 2000. After Fujimori's government collapsed a few weeks later, Humala was pardoned and sent abroad as a military attach?, returning to Peru early last year. He is the clear favorite among Peru's rural and urban poor, who have...
...Whoever does win will have to deal with a cagey opposition that is unlikely to let down its guard. Neither candidate has a majority in Congress, with Humala's party holding 45 seats and Garcìa's 36 in the 120- member unicameral legislature. Which means that no matter how often Garcìa claims to be running against Hugo Chávez, when the race is over, he and Humala will eventually have to deal with each other - like...