In a move which illustrates the skewed playing field, Fujimori has recruited Lima’s most expensive law firms to quash 200,000 votes, almost all from poor Andean regions which voted overwhelmingly for Castillo.
“The tension has reached a breaking point,” said José Ragas, a Peruvian historian at Chile’s Catholic University. “The Lima elite is not just trying to keep power – it’s not just that they don’t want to recognise the victory of Pedro Castillo – but they are trying to cancel the rural vote.”
In one ugly but not unusual case, the online news site Sudaca published a private text messages between middle-class white men in Lima who discussed how people from the highlands should “die of hunger” and called for the return of Alberto Fujimori’s alleged forced sterilisations which mostly targeted indigenous women.
Other social media memes characterised Castillo as a donkey or said Andeans were too ignorant to be allowed to vote
Oh shit, someone's about to do a "rules-based international order" in Peru
They still focus almost exclusively on the racism angle than try to explain why the rural voters went left or why the elites are scared of the leftist.
CNN somehow started talking up PRC's vaccination efforts last week. I guess moments of madness still happen from time to time.
Interesting how their rural area go left instead of right, maybe because there's not 24/7 glued to tv fox news propaganda
The material conditions are probably very different in rural LatAm versus “rural” America.
Maybe because they're not majority settler? The rural US would be pretty based too if it was majority ndn
In Russia and Ukraine rural areas are pretty sympathetic to communists. Also they are very socially conservative.
