Just one year ago, after a bitterly emotional campaign, 1,730,000 Peruvians went to the polls to choose among the three top presidential candidatesand produced a deadlock so explosive that a military junta annulled the whole thing. This week, in a somewhat calmer atmosphere, the voters will try again with the same faces, the same ideologies, and the same soldiers looking over their shoulders.
Two Down. The months in between have produced only minor shifts. And yet this time they could prove decisive. Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 68, founding father of the revolutionary-turned-reformist APRA party, still retains much of...
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