"Ollanta Humala Jolts Peru into Populism" by Dr. Michael A. Weinstein

If they are successfully organized, the social action groups would function like Chavez's "Bolivarian Circles," creating a network of local support for Humala outside the formal institutional structure and ushering in what Ecuador's President Alfredo Palacio calls a "divided state."

Peru is poised to join its Andean neighbors in an intensified populist shift through a jolt from the right. Whoever assumes the presidency, the neo-liberal model has been set aside.