LIMA: Rural school teacher Pedro Castillo will on Wednesday become Peru’s first president with no ties to the elites that have governed the Andean country for decades.The 51-year-old far-left trade unionist was largely unknown until he led a national strike four years ago that forced the then government to agree to pay rise demands.He was born to peasants in the tiny village of Puna in the historic Cajamarca region where he worked as a teacher for 24 years.He grew up helping his parents with farm work, and as a child, had to walk several kilometers to school.Today, he is rarely without the trademark white, wide-brimmed hat of his beloved Cajamarca, where the last Inca emperor Atahualpa was a
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