Reading the news back a year, I get the impression that for all Castillo's supposed intelligence, he really didn't seem to know what a President does, and didn't actually do the job.
And Alberto Fujimori started out as an economic reformer. Time brings changes.
I recall reading about the Shining Path terrorist campaign and being glad we didn't have people quite that virulently fucked up, here. Closer to it nowadays.
Thank you, I had never heard this phrase in this context.
It's a muddled mess, from what I can see up here. Castillo is a Marxist, predictably hated bitterly by the political right and most of the wealthy, accused of corruption (and there are some indications this might be at least partially...