Peru Bars Fujimori's Biggest Rival From Presidential Race

Peru's electoral board kicked the main rival to presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori out of the race on a technicality on Wednesday, removing the front-runner's biggest obstacle to winning the office once held by her jailed father. The board's 3-2 decision to remove Julio Guzman raises questions over the fairness of this year's vote and threatens to tarnish Fujimori's legitimacy if she wins. Guzman, a centrist technocrat who was little known months ago, was the...

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