Photo: Jen Rickling via APThe US-educated business administrator, who is of Japanese descent, presents herself as the safest pair of hands to take on the extortion gangs and hitmen terrorizing Peru. She would also withdraw Peru from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to establish “faceless” courts, where judges with concealed faces would try suspects. TV comedian Carlos Alvarez, a well-known political impersonator, is the big surprise of the election. The 62-year-old Alvarez has promised an “iron fist” approach to Peru’s extortion and murder epidemic and said hitmen would face the death penalty. Castillo, who was impeached a year and a half later for trying to dissolve Congress, was polling seventh a week before the first round of the election.

Source: Taipei Times April 08, 2026 18:02 UTC