Monday, April 03, 2006

"Ollanta Humala, the former army officer and maverick populist-nationalist who leads in the run-up to Sunday's presidential election in Peru, says he wants to construct a "Latin American family" of like-minded peoples and governments. That has triggered fears in Washington that Peru could soon join Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, Evo Morales's Bolivia and Fidel Castro's Cuba in an anti-American, or at least an anti-Bush administration, radical front."