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Weekly Report - 9 May 2006
PERU: Chávez factor puts Humala in a bind
Ollanta Humala, the nationalist candidate who will face Alan García in the presidential run-off scheduled for 4 June, is caught in a bind. On the one hand, with his perceived association with Hugo Chávez evidently costing him crucial votes, he has been trying to distance himself from Chávez . On the other, his efforts to retain his core constituency lead him to embrace Bolivian President Evo Morales and his running-mate and to announce policies apparently modelled on Morales's latest - thus giving more ammunition to his rival.
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