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Posted by Nicholas Gill Jun 9, 2006 |
In what became a three way tug of war between Garcia, his opponent Ollanta Humala, and Venezualan President Hugo Chavez, the Peruvian election has finally finished. Garcia, whose campaign from 1985-1990 wa plagued with high inflation, corruption, and security threats from Maoist rebels such as the Shining Path oddly enough soundly defeated Humala. Garcia has vowed to not make the same mistakes twice. Anti-American Humala, a former Army commander who once headed a failed military coup on the Fujimori government, briefly aligned himself with Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales, a tactic which many Peruvians saw as a threat to their democracy. In the end many saw the election as a choice between Garcia and Chavez.