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...boardrooms and meetings with business groups, Humala is much more conciliatory, promising to respect private property, battle drug trafficking and push for equitable trade pacts with the U.S. and Europe. Indeed, he told TIME in a recent interview that "we are not going to get involved in an ideological conflict with the United States" and that the "new confrontation isn't left versus right, but the harmful effects of globalization being combated by nationalism...
...Humala's seemingly contradictory faces reflect in many ways his colorful, complicated background, and they are the reason many of his critics on both the left and the right still don't entirely trust him. Unlike other like-minded leftist politicians in South America, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and recently elected Evo Morales in Bolivia, Humala doesn't come from humble beginnings. His father, who is the founder of an ultranationalist, neo-Marxist movement that preaches the superiority of indigenous Indian Peruvians over the country's descendants of the Spanish and promotes violence against those lighter-skinned elite, raised...
...After attending a top private school in Lima, earning a master's degree in political science and studying for a while in France, Humala has spent virtually his entire working life in the army, an experience that has raised questions about his commitment to human rights and democracy. He is accused of torturing and killing suspected guerrillas during the country's war against terrorism and the Shining Path in the early 1990s - allegations he says are part of a smear campaign - and led a failed uprising against former President Alberto Fujimori in October 2000, only a few weeks before Fujimori...
...Bizarre remarks from Humala's family have not helped his image. His young brother Antauro, currently in prison for leading an army reservists' attack on a police station last year that killed four officers, said he would put the current President Alejandro Toledo and all 120 members of Congress before a firing squad if he were president. His mother told a local paper late in the campaign that shooting a few homosexuals would reduce immorality in the country...
...Humala has done his best to disassociate himself from his family, including another brother who is running as a fringe presidential candidate as the standard bearer of his father's racist movement. And among the half oF Peru's population that lives in poverty - or on less than $2 a day - he is still the favorite. He has successfully painted Flores as the candidate of the rich and of the capital city of Lima, where about one-third of the country's voters live. After leading throughout most of the presidential race, Flores is now ahead only ahead...