Behind the News: The Peruvian Election

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🗓️ 13 June 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug speaks with Matt Kierkegaard, coordinator of the Progressive International’s delegation to observe the Peruvian election, on the apparent very narrow victory of the socialist, Pedro Castillo. Then Doug interviews Ross Barkan, author of The Prince, on the dark, evil Andrew Cuomo.

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0:00.0	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:35.0	My name is Doug Henwood.
0:36.0	Two guests today.
0:37.0	You may not be shocked to learn.
0:38.0	We'll hear from Matt Kierkegaard,
0:40.0	who's been observing the presidential election in Peru
0:42.0	for the Progressive International.
0:44.0	And then Ross Barken, author of a new book
0:46.0	in the dreadful Andrew Cuomo,
0:48.0	will explore the governor's awfulness.
0:51.0	In April, Peru held elections for the president
0:53.0	at all 130 seats in Congress.
0:56.0	Since their 18 candidates for the top office,
0:59.0	no one got 50% of the vote.
1:01.0	So there was a runoff election
1:02.0	between the top two vote getters this past Sunday, June 6th.
1:06.0	The ideological divide between those candidates is stark.
1:09.0	Pedro Castillo is a schoolteacher and a socialist
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