I'm John Batchel with the New World Report, Professor Evan Ellis, returned from

Bolivia, where there is successful democracy at the same time it's under siege by a band of, well, self-interested drug dealers. What we have, however, in other capitals is a straight-up confrontation between large voting blocks. We go first to Peru because there is a vote coming within days,

a runoff vote between a previous presidential candidate and the daughter of a previous

president, and a man who came from well back in the polling to take second place named

Sanchez. He's associated with wearing large hats.

Why that's significant is that the previous election that I attended carefully, elected a man

named Castillo, who was a schoolteacher and not qualified to live in the palace and rule

a country of prosperity and disorder.

He is now incarcerated. So is his vice

president. There are other details in the presidential palace, but we come to the man Sanchez,

who's associated with the same large group that puts Castillo in office, also associated with

irregularities in the vote.

Professor, are we looking at trouble in Peru soon enough when the vote is counted next week?

We're certainly looking at potential trouble, John.

Now, right now, Keiko Fujimori, the center right candidate, is polling about three or

four percentage points above Roberto Sanchez, although literally you have about a fifth of the entire electorate surveyed who are undecided.

The issue with Sanchez is, as you alluded to, he is definitely of that far left.

Ilk, I believe to have some ties to Seroon and, as you alluded to,

possibly another version of Pedro Castillo, who came from the highlands.

Indeed, in many ways, Sanchez could be more dangerous than Castillo because on the one hand,

he does seem to have the leftist radical intellectual orientation that Castillo had, but in many ways, more prepared,

more trained. He is a psychologist, has a social work background. He was long a congressman,

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