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LIMA, PERU - The polls have closed and the ballots are soon to be all counted, but it looks like Peruvians will have to wait at least a month until they know who their next president will be.
At press time Monday, Ollanta Humala, a retired army lieutenant colonel with great appeal among the country's indigenous and mixed race poor, was holding a slim lead over his rivals.
With 67.3 percent of votes counted, Mr. Humala was ahead with 28.7 percent, Peru's election authority said Monday. Conservative congresswoman Lourdes Flores was second with 25.8 percent, while Alan Garcia, a left-center former president was right behind her with 25.1 percent.
An unofficial vote sample from the respected election watchdog group Transparencia gave Humala 29.9 percent of the vote, with Flores barely edging Garcia with a 24.4 percent to 24.3 percent, respectively. The projection was based on results from 928 voting tables and had an error margin of less than 1 percent.
Endorsed by Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and fond of the same rhetoric as Bolivia's leftist leader Evo Morales, Humala has pledged to renegotiate the contracts of foreign mining and oil companies in the country, rewrite the Constitution to take away powers from the ruling classes, and legalize farming of coca, the plant used to make cocaine. He has also promised to bring education, health care, and potable water to the rural areas.
"I feel like I am juggling three balls, and whichever one I happen to catch is the one I will vote for," says Juan Pablo Irrarazabal, an unemployed window frame maker, sidestepping plastic bags and fruit rinds blowing around his straw hut.
"The candidates come here and make us mountains of promises," says Mr. Irrarazabal. "And we always pray one of them, once elected, might actually come back and fulfill those promises. But they never do."
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At press time Monday, Ollanta Humala, a retired army lieutenant colonel with great appeal among the country's indigenous and mixed race poor, was holding a slim lead over his rivals.
With 67.3 percent of votes counted, Mr. Humala was ahead with 28.7 percent, Peru's election authority said Monday. Conservative congresswoman Lourdes Flores was second with 25.8 percent, while Alan Garcia, a left-center former president was right behind her with 25.1 percent.
An unofficial vote sample from the respected election watchdog group Transparencia gave Humala 29.9 percent of the vote, with Flores barely edging Garcia with a 24.4 percent to 24.3 percent, respectively. The projection was based on results from 928 voting tables and had an error margin of less than 1 percent.
Endorsed by Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and fond of the same rhetoric as Bolivia's leftist leader Evo Morales, Humala has pledged to renegotiate the contracts of foreign mining and oil companies in the country, rewrite the Constitution to take away powers from the ruling classes, and legalize farming of coca, the plant used to make cocaine. He has also promised to bring education, health care, and potable water to the rural areas.
"I feel like I am juggling three balls, and whichever one I happen to catch is the one I will vote for," says Juan Pablo Irrarazabal, an unemployed window frame maker, sidestepping plastic bags and fruit rinds blowing around his straw hut.
"The candidates come here and make us mountains of promises," says Mr. Irrarazabal. "And we always pray one of them, once elected, might actually come back and fulfill those promises. But they never do."
but what i wish i was doing, is this:
http://www.flaminglotus.com/serpent_mother/web/serpent_artist_renderings.html