Peruvian Presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, is being put in the same boat with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Bolivia’s Evo Morales, as part of a branch of progressive Latin American leaders going against the tide of neoliberalism. Pero accusations of him committing human rights abuses when he served as a military commander in the early 1990s and possible links to former President Fujimori’s bribe taking intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, are calling his progressive cred into question.

There are very well-founded allegations based on testimony that was collected at the time by the Red Cross. The accusations go beyond implicating Humala in crimes committed under his command and finger him directly for cases of torture, extra-juridical execution, and disappearances.

Is this a gamble Peru can afford to take?

Via / ZNet