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Pedro Castillo he reached the home stretch of the electoral count with a difference of around 80,000 votes in his favor. There is only the official ratification of his victory, which must be settled in the coming hours. The ambiguity of the figure is due to the infinitesimal variation which could result from the examination of the observed recordings, badly informed or with illegible signatures. But stay, the victory of the rural teacher is irreversible, and this explains that since Tuesday afternoon the rumor mill and the lies of the Peruvian and mainland right wing began to beat the patch of “fraud”. But Adriana urrutia, the political scientist of Civil Transparency Association, The institution that deployed 1,400 observers in Peru and in overseas voting centers immediately dismissed the accusation, stating that “There is no evidence that allows us to speak of electoral fraud” “This statement is consistent with that made by the observers of the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations and none other than the envoys of the OAS.

Fake news

Once talkative Peruvian celebrities like Mario Vargas Llosa Yes Jaime Bayly they were called to resounding silence. The former wrote that he “burned with desire” to celebrate the triumph of the hypercorrupted who until a few months ago was the prime target of his most furious and devastating attacks. How would Jorge Luis Borges This somersault was not the product of love but of the horror that his tormented colonial soul produced the only possibility that a man of the people, a humble rural schoolteacher, could achieve what he could not. in 1990: to be president of Peru. And now it burns, but with hatred and fury, before the blinding light of a character who has defamed, insulted and fought viciously and relentlessly. Bayly, another colonized spirit at heart, grew weary of defaming the figure of Castillo: he accused him of being a Chavist, a Castro-Chavist, a leftist, a Communist and even hinted that he could be a “senderista”. As in Argentina, pseudo-journalism knows no ethical limits. Their spokespersons can lie daily and with impunity. The complement of fake news and the media shield cultivated by media hitmen is the law. Whatever Bayly says against the future Peruvian president, justice will always be there to protect the publicist of the empire.

In proportional terms, Castillo is almost half a percentage point ahead of Keiko Fujimori. It was certainly a very close election. But for those who claim that this is not a sufficient difference, I remind you that in 2016, Keiko lost to another corrupt man, Pedro Pablo Kuczinski, by 40,000 votes and 0.20 of the total. valid voices. Now the difference is double, in absolute terms and in percentage. There is no reason to ignore Cajamarca’s victory. In a democracy, whoever has the most votes wins, and Castillo has more than enough. John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon in 1960 by a percentage difference equal to 0.17 percent.; Why is this number good in the United States and a much higher number not in Peru?

Why did Castillo win?

Castillo’s victory is an encouraging development as it shows that If there is one candidate who faithfully represents and interprets popular sentiment, all the powers in the world can be defeated. establishment. Businessmen who threatened to close their doors and leave their workers in the street shot him; the lying and manipulative media oligarchy; the traditional political class; senior state officials and even most footballers in the Peruvian selection, apart from Vargas Llosa and Bayly. Castillo ran his campaign with zero money, no image consultants, and no expensive election consultants. He didn’t need all of that. He won because he listened to the popular clamor, he knew how to hear the voice of the street.

Marito got fucked

Not only did he win the election, but he also received an unexpected gift: he beat Keiko, 65% to 35% of the vote in No less than Arequipa, the homeland of his most vicious slanderer who for this reason too , must burn like medieval tea wondering When Marito got fucked? He, accustomed to alternating with presidents and kings, with ministers and eminences; being treated with the distinction due to a Marquis of the Kingdom of Spain was beaten in his native homeland by a humble teacher from Cajamarca, from Chota to be more exact, who overnight seemed to embody the traits of some of the heroes most most admirable of his novels. Also, I would say that many of them must taste the sweet taste of revenge against the writer who created them and that, when he leaves the world of fiction he becomes a mortal enemy of his beloved creatures, eternal dreamers and fighters for a better world.