Who's Behind the Coup in Peru?

Everything seems prepared: the U.S.

ambassador with CIA credentials, a dirty tricks man with a habit of going to the embassy for help and with a record of asking the United States to malign the left, a grand old man with an allergy to his own people, and a candidate whose father was backed by the oligarchy when he conducted a self-coup in 1992.by Jose Carlos Llerena Robles and Vijay PrashadPedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party has already begun to receive congratulations from around the world. It is beyond doubt that he won the June 6 presidential election.

The Peruvian electoral authority, ONPE, announced the final results: Castillo won 50.127 percent of the vote (8.84 million votes), while his opponent in the second round, Keiko Fujimori of Fuerza Popular, won 49.873 percent (8.79 million votes). This is with 100 percent of the votes.

By all accounts, Fujimori has lost the election.table " " 0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto class="tr-caption" Pedro CastilloHowever, Fujimori--the candidate of the right--has refused to concede.

In fact, she has hired the very best of Peru's legal minds to challenge the election results. Within hours of the election tallies being available, Fujimori's team filed 134 challenges within the window of opportunity; they have another 811 challenges in hand.

Anyone who knows the Peruvian legal fraternity will realize that some of the most important names are on...