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...much as his political opponents try, it isn't easy to put a finger on Ollanta Humala, the frontrunner heading into Peru's presidential election this Sunday. On the stump, Humala, 43, a retired army lieutenant colonel,is a fiery leftist, telling crowds that he would nationalize strategic industries and veto the recently negotiated free-trade agreement with the U.S., all the while railing against what he calls the "neoliberal economic model...
...Peru provided the region's most stunning reaction to the Evo Morales victory in Bolivia: The candidate whose politics most resembles that of Morales (and Chavez) is Ollanta Humala, a retired lieutenant colonel and an admirer of Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle. Before the Bolivian elections, Humala had been polling about 12%; immediately after, he was at 22%, a statistical tie with the candidate of the center-right ruling party, Lourdes Flores Nano. While denying ties to Chavez for most of the race, Humala did an about-face on Jan. 3, traveling to Caracas and taking a front...
...Humala, however, still has a long road to the presidency. First he would have to win first or second place in the April 9 vote; and then win a runoff on May 7. In the meantime, his personal and family history may dog him. He led a mini-uprising against Peru's now exiled president Alberto Fujimori in 2000, just before his government collapsed. Humala's younger brother is now in prison awaiting trial for leading his own uprising a year ago in a tiny Andean backwater town. And Humala's eldest brother, Ulises, has officially filed...
Such mantras are raising the prospects of other left-leaning politicians. Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, a retired army lieutenant colonel, says the nation should re-examine agreements that sold off state-owned companies and review the lucrative tax-stability contracts that have been luring foreign investors. After Morales' victory, Humala last week scored 23% in a respected poll for April's presidential election--a 10-point bounce that brings him within 3 points of the front runner...
...Humala enjoys a more telling poll figure: 58% of those in the survey like the fact that he doesn't belong to one of Peru's traditional and often notoriously corrupt political parties. Corruption is the hottest button for Latin voters, and it is biting pols to the left as well, especially Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose re-election prospects next October look dimmer with his party mired in a campaign-finance scandal. Latin American political experts say Bush should focus on rewarding clean government rather than raising the ideological temperature. His recent selection of Thomas...