This is Jacquemin Radio, I'm Suzy Weizmann. On today's program, we're going to look at the June 6th election in Peru. Pedro Castillo, a socialist trade unionist from an indigenous background, has won its presidency in a nail-biter of an election, still to be confirmed, but it looks like he won.

And this is putting an end, perhaps, to the neoliberal populism of the cropped right-wing Kiko Fujimori, the daughter of Alberto Fujimori, who sits in jail for corruption.

We're going to talk to Nicholas Allen, he's the managing editor of Jacobin America Latina, to explain this result and to situate it in the larger context of the crisis of neoliberal rule, the raging pandemic, and popular revolt.

All this, when our program returns, in just a moment.

This is Jacquemin Radio, I'm Suzy Weizmann. And on today's show, I'm really pleased to have Nicholas Allen with us for the very first time, and we're going to be looking at the June 6th election in Peru.

And that was really a nail-biter of an election, and some would say a total surprise. In fact, I think that's the consensus. Most people think that the outcome was a complete surprise.

And that is that Pedro Castillo, a socialist trade unionist from an indigenous background won the presidency in what, of course, was a very close race, but looks like it's putting an end to the neoliberal populism.

Keiko Fuhimori, the daughter of Alberto Fuhimori, who sits in jail for corruption, and she also went to jail for corruption.

So we're very fortunate to have Nicholas Allen with us. He is the managing editor of Jacobin America Latina, and we're going to ask him to explain this result and to situate it in the larger context of the crisis of neoliberal rule, the raging pandemic, and popular revolt.

But Nicholas Allen, as I mentioned, is a Jacobin contributing editor, and he's the managing editor at Jacobin American Latina, which I really, if you read Spanish, you should take a look at it's really excellent.

And you can read his articles and interviews on Peru in Jacobin in both the English version and in the Latin American version, and Nicholas Allen lives in Buenos Aires. He did his PhD at the University of Buenos Aires.

Welcome to the program.

Thank you for having me.

I'm really thrilled to have you, and I'm also really interested in your research.

I'll just tell the listeners it's on the communist and left wing movements in Argentina in 1940s and 50s. Is that about right?

Yeah, that's correct.

Yeah.

And another time we'll do a show on that because I really want to, it's kind of been a lacuna in terms of all the other Latin American covered that have done over the years.

So let's begin, Nicholas, with the upset victory.

Everybody describes it as a surprise.

So maybe you could just begin telling us in really sort of introductory terms.

What Pedro Castillo's victory represents in political, social, and economic terms?

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