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Stories for June 3rd 2001

• Sunday, June 3rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Toledo Wins Peru Presidential Vote.

  Alejandro Toledo rose from a poor childhood as a shoeshine boy to become Peru's first freely elected president of native Indian descent on Sunday, defeating controversial ex-president Alan Garcia.

• Sunday, June 3rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Last news from South America.

  Economist Alejandro Toledo won Peru's presidential election on Sunday after a 14-month odyssey in which he narrowly beat his leftist rival Alan Garcia.