Washington Post: "Peru's crossroads"

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Peru's crossroads

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OLLANTA HUMALA, Peru's president-elect, has in a matter of months jumped from one major Latin American political camp to another. A former coup-plotting colonel, Mr. Humala used to be a follower of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and his authoritarian brand of socialism; Venezuelan money may even have funded Mr. Humala's campaign. But after the first round of the election — in which three competing moderate candidates divided the centrist vote and eliminated one another, leaving a choice between populists of the left and right — Mr. Humala reinvented himself. He imported Brazilian advisers and claimed to have adopted the model of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who successfully mixed free-market policies with social welfare and stuck to democratic norms.