Castañeda to step down on Oct. 11 to set up run for Peru’s presidency

The current mayor of Lima, Luis Castañeda, has said he will resign from his position on Monday in order to look at running in Peru’s presidential elections in April 2011, daily El Comercio reported. “After October 11 we will start to think about the political event,” Castañeda said. “What I am doing is breaking the [...]

No alliances will be made with Lima Mayor Castañeda for upcoming 2011 presidential elections, says Simon

Former premier and head of the Peruvian Humanist Movement Yehude Simon said Friday that his party would not be making any alliances with the “authoritarian” Lima Mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio for the upcoming 2011 presidential elections. “We have a different vision,” said Simon, who compared Castañeda’s style to that of Ollanta Humala, head of Peru’s [...]