At the double, Ollanta the outsider

摘要

The candidate of a newly formed Peruvian Nationalist Party, Ollanta Humala bounds onto the rickety stage. Some 3,000 people have gathered in the square in Santa Anita, a lower-middle class Lima suburb poised uneasily between an aspiration to prosperity and the fear of poverty. Dressed in a red T-shirt emblazoned "Love for Peru", Mr Humala barks out his rabble-rousing message.