Here’s what’s most remarkable about Peru’s April 10 first-round election, which will result in a June 5 runoff vote between Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski: Nearly 80 per cent of the people voted against a Venezuelan-like leftist-populist model.
Evolution won, revolution lost. It was a very significant result, because it showed that Peru’s more than two decades of continued pro-investment economic policies are paying off.
Peru’s economy has grown steadily and poverty has gone down dramatically over the past two decades, most recently without the autocratic rule and political repression that we have seen in