I wrote here about the Peruvian presidential election pitting leftist thug
Ollanta Humala against Keiko Fujimori. The election was held yesterday. Fox
News reports that official results, with 87 percent of the vote counted, had
Humala ahead with 51.2 percent. This is very bad news for Peru, perhaps
limited by the modest presence Humala's party in the Peruvian Congress, where
it holds 47 out of 130 seats.
Nobel laureate Marion Vargas Llosa deserves to be singled out for opprobrium.
If Humala is in fact the winner of the election, as he appears to be, Vargas
Llosa's endorsement of Humala may well have put him over the top.
Vargas Llosa is well known as a prominent proponent of freedom and economic
liberalization in Latin America. Why would he support Humala, who has
approximately one degree of separation from Fidel Castro? According to Vargas
Llosa, voting for Keiko Fujimori was "legitimating the worst dictatorship
we've suffered during our history as a republic." Vargas Llosa asserted that
"electing Keiko Fujimori as president would be the worst mistake that
Peruvians could make."
But Peru quickly emerged from what Vargas Llosa calls Fujimori's dictatorship.
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