RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Pedro Castillo is a religious and conservative rural teacher from outside traditional Peruvian politics, who is running for the presidency of Peru with radical proposals -perhaps dangerous or inapplicable- that highlight the contradictions of a broken country divided between the haves and have-nots.
Nobody expected that this 51-year-old man of humble peasant descent could be one step away from winning the presidency of the country wearing his peculiar "chotano" hat, a pencil, and a discourse that clashes head-on with the political "status quo" and the dogmas of the free market that have . . .
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