RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Populism, demagogy, and xenophobia reigned this Saturday, May 1st, in the first debate between Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori, an improvised face-to-face, to which the two candidates in the second round of Peru's presidential elections had challenged and challenged each other in previous days.
This street duel full of personal attacks entered the political history of Peru for being the second presidential debate to be held outside Lima and the first in a rural area, as it was held in Chota, a small town in the Peruvian Andes whose province Castillo is a. . .