In Peru, a rural schoolteacher rises from obscurity to the presidency
7/20/21
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from The Washington Post,
7/20/21:
Mr. Smith went to Washington. Now, Mr. Castillo is coming to Lima.
The rise of Pedro Castillo, a previously obscure leader of a rural teachers union, to Peru’s highest office is the most glaring example yet of the power of the pandemic to upend politics in Latin America.
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