LIMA, Peru – Former President Alan Garcia staged a remarkable political comeback in Peru’s runoff election, beating a retired army lieutenant to regain control of the country 16 years after his first term ended in economic ruin and rebel violence.

Garcia’s victory Sunday was a blow to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had endorsed Ollanta Humala, a political upstart many Peruvians saw as dangerous to democracy.

“I want our party this time to demonstrate to the Peruvian people, who have called it to the highest responsibilities, that it will not convert the state into booty,” said Garcia, referring to the widespread corruption that marked his first term from 1985-90, when tens of thousands of party members landed state jobs.

Garcia said voters had sent an overwhelming message to Chavez that they rejected the “strategy of expansion of a militaristic, retrograde model that he has tried to impose in South America.”
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A brutal new/old dictator for the US to support…

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