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‘In Peru, a rural schoolteacher rises from obscurity to the presidency’ – by Lucien Chauvin published in the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

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The rise of Pedro Castillo, a previously obscure leader of a rural teachers union, to\u00a0Peru\u2019s highest office<\/a> is the most glaring example yet of the power of the pandemic to upend politics in Latin America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The ravages of the\u00a0coronavirus<\/a>, and the surges in poverty and inequality it has caused, have provoked\u00a0nearly 1 million people to protest in Colombia<\/a>\u00a0and saw a communist elected mayor of Santiago, the capital of Chile, the region\u2019s free-market model.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here in Peru, a what-more-have-we-got-to-lose mentality helped propel one of the most unusual candidates ever to win a Latin American presidency. A 51-year-old, straw-hat-wearing schoolteacher and farmer who reported an income last year of $16,600, Castillo has never held public office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read the full article here…\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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