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Who Is Roberto Sánchez, the Left-Wing Candidate Who Seeks to Surprise the Ballotage in Peru

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LIMA.- When he travels the streets of Peru, Roberto Sánchez usually draws attention to an accessory that became his political seal: a broad-winged peasant hat. Juntos candidate for Peru maintains that this garment represents “Deep Peru”, the rural and Andean country that for decades was left out of the economic growth exhibited by Lima. At 57 years old, Sánchez became one of the biggest surprises of the Peruvian election. Former Minister of Fore…

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LIMA.- When he travels the streets of Peru, Roberto Sánchez usually draws attention to an accessory that became his political seal: a broad-winged peasant hat. Juntos candidate for Peru maintains that this garment represents “Deep Peru”, the rural and Andean country that for decades was left out of the economic growth exhibited by Lima. At 57 years old, Sánchez became one of the biggest surprises of the Peruvian election. Former Minister of Fore…

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Roberto Sánchez was about to die four months ago. He was campaigning in the south of the country, in a rural area and far from Lima, when he was assaulted by intense and persistent pain in the abdomen in the middle of the road. He was taken to the nearest health center, but his team went into despair when they told them that he had an acute appendicitis and did not have specialists to operate it. Up to three health posts toured and when he arriv…

·Spain
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Roberto Helbert Sánchez Palomino, 57 years old and professional psychologist, became the surprise candidate of the election by passing to the second round wearing the hat of former president Pedro Castillo (2021-26) and announcing the pardon and his release in case he won. During the first round, dressed with the hat, Sánchez did not give interviews to the media of Lima and toured the poorest areas in the south of the country . The hat that Pedr…

·Spain
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Tribute to the fallen, a chronicle of Fernando Vivas about the parties that will disappearEduardo Ferrero: “It is negative to ideologize foreign policy”Here is a character for the history of electoral mythologies. Undoubtedly and by far, the hat of Pedro Castillo was the most powerful symbol of these presidential elections. So much that arises the question of who carried the hat, whether Roberto Sanchez carried the hat or the hat carried it to h…

·Lima, Peru
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