chebol
3rd January 2006, 01:02
Anyone been following Peruvian politics recently?
PERU:
Pro-Indigenous Retired Colonel Sees Meteoric Rise in the Polls
Ángel Páez
LIMA, Dec 13 (IPS) - Retired army colonel Ollanta Humala has experienced an unexpected surge in the polls for Peru's April 2006 elections. He now has a 22 percent rating, putting him just three points behind the current front-runner, right-wing candidate Lourdes Flores Nano, with 25 percent.
Humala, who is still in the process of registering his new party and his candidacy, started out with a mere five percent voter intention rating, and within the past four weeks rose from 11 to 22 percent in the polls.
Taking a radical stance against Peru's traditional political parties and politicians, who he blames for all of the country's ills, from corruption to extreme poverty, Humala reflects the disillusionment of Peruvians with the government of President Alejandro Toledo and its predecessors.
Ollanta - which means "the all-observing warrior" in Quechua - is not a leftist. He is an outspoken anti-United States nationalist. And while he is not a socialist, he talks about nationalising the country's "strategic enterprises".
Although he has mestizo (mixed-race) features and was born into a well-off middle-class family in Lima, he puts a strong emphasis on his Andean indigenous roots, and is especially popular among the rural poor.
Full article: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31409
Also:
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/peru/archives/020408.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4570852.stm
http://www.freelori.org/news/03jun01_houstonchron.html
PERU:
Pro-Indigenous Retired Colonel Sees Meteoric Rise in the Polls
Ángel Páez
LIMA, Dec 13 (IPS) - Retired army colonel Ollanta Humala has experienced an unexpected surge in the polls for Peru's April 2006 elections. He now has a 22 percent rating, putting him just three points behind the current front-runner, right-wing candidate Lourdes Flores Nano, with 25 percent.
Humala, who is still in the process of registering his new party and his candidacy, started out with a mere five percent voter intention rating, and within the past four weeks rose from 11 to 22 percent in the polls.
Taking a radical stance against Peru's traditional political parties and politicians, who he blames for all of the country's ills, from corruption to extreme poverty, Humala reflects the disillusionment of Peruvians with the government of President Alejandro Toledo and its predecessors.
Ollanta - which means "the all-observing warrior" in Quechua - is not a leftist. He is an outspoken anti-United States nationalist. And while he is not a socialist, he talks about nationalising the country's "strategic enterprises".
Although he has mestizo (mixed-race) features and was born into a well-off middle-class family in Lima, he puts a strong emphasis on his Andean indigenous roots, and is especially popular among the rural poor.
Full article: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31409
Also:
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/peru/archives/020408.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4570852.stm
http://www.freelori.org/news/03jun01_houstonchron.html