Humala’s victory in Peru seen from neighbouring but distant Chile

Wednesday, June 8th 2011 - 06:29 UTC

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Sunday marked the end of a drawn out campaign for Peru’s presidency, as centre-left candidate Ollanta Humala claimed a narrow victory over centre-right candidate Keiko Fujimori. Read full article

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ManRod
It's true, that Humala has moderated his anti-chilean speach alot in last elections, especially time between first and second poll. Considering his first candidature and back then still as a leader in the “Cacerismo” movement, a movement that was BORN out of the sentimient against Chileans.

Caceres was a peruvian guerilla general in the war of the pacific, who became famous in Peru in the last years of resistance against Chile, before Peru finally signed capituation. He was known for the sudden raids on Chilean occupation troops, though he did not really succeed with it and bruised the last peruvian forces in it's intent.

Ollantas Ex-Movment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movimiento_Etnocacerista

Caceres, peruvian war hero against Chile:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movimiento_Etnocacerista
Jun 08th, 2011 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Sergio Vega
Well, we must wait some time to check if he act as a moderate leader or just a redhat nationalist anti Chilean leader.....Personally, I hhave not much confidence on him, thought he is like a wolf disguised as a lamb hidden his real intentions....even I would like that relationship between both countries were better within the possible. By the moment there are a lot of Peruvians living here being a real contribution to our society, in spite they are very bad treated by some Chilean community members.
Jun 08th, 2011 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
I think, but I don't know, that Humala represent it's people better and will do better than Garcia with the internal problems in Peru. I doubt he cares what Chileans think and I doubt he has time to care about that while there are no major issues with it's neighbor. The Brazilians taught him a good lesson, don't worry about them, that rhetoric between left and right is a loser, worry about your own problems and solutions...the rest will come.
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