Peru Signals Leftist Revival Will Spread Across Latin America
Chile, Colombia, and Brazil are also expected to shift left amid anger at incumbents.
Peruvian presidential candidate Pedro Castillo talks to supporters at his party’s headquarters in Lima on June 8.
Photographer: Klebher Vasquez/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesThe apparent electoral win in Peru of Pedro Castillo, a rural union activist from a Marxist party, over conservative rival Keiko Fujimori signals what may be a far-reaching shift to the left in a region ravaged by Covid and filled with fury at ruling elites.
Candidates on the left appear poised for victory in Chile, Colombia, and Brazil over the next 16 months. With leftists already running Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, and Bolivia, it could resemble the “pink tide” at the start of this century, kicked off by Venezuela’s election of Hugo Chávez in 1998.