Word: alejandro
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...trouble in Peru is just beginning. Three days of ballot tallies ended last Wednesday in the announcement that a runoff vote would take place in June between the two leading candidates for the Peruvian presidency, incumbent Alberto Fujimori and opposition leader Alejandro Toledo. President Fujimori is vying for his third straight term in office, but his campaign has been recently marred by allegations of corruption. Most recently, it is likely that Fujimori tampered with the ballots. When "official" election returns suggested a Fujimori victory--even though exit polls 12 hours earlier indicated that the Peruvian president would not have...
...Even before the vote, the U.S. had warned that violent intimidation by Fujimori supporters during the campaign had jeopardized chances of a free and fair ballot. And as results began to pour in, so did allegations that many ballot papers had Fujimori's name preselected or opposition leader Alejandro Toledo's name cut off, as well as claims that people were accessing the electoral commission's computer system from Internet cafes and tampering with results. Toledo, a Harvard-trained economist who had jumped in a matter of weeks from about 5 percent support to win more than 40 percent...
...infirmity to give up on the dream, Fujimori has succeeded in conjuring up a third presidential bid even though his constitution only allows two. But Peru's voters didn't play along in Sunday's election, denying Fujimori a majority and forcing him into a runoff against Alejandro Toledo, a liberal economist whose support stood at only 4 percent some four weeks ago. Lima was wracked by protests Monday as Toledo supporters marched on the presidential palace accusing Fujimori of rigging the polls - a charge that may resonate internationally, after the U.S. government last month endorsed a report...
Before the boom, when the current agave crop was being planted, the international market for tequila was decidedly downscale. "People knew tequila as what they drank in college to get drunk," says Alex Alejandro, co-owner of New York City's oldest Mexican restaurant, El Parador. The restaurant has stocked premium tequilas for all its 40 years, but it hasn't always found a ready buyer. "Ten years ago, the average consumer wasn't willing to pay more than about $4 a shot," says Alejandro...
...Alejandro Jenkins '01 is a math and physics concentrator in Currier House...