Wall Street Vet Raised in Jungle Gets Shot at Peru’s Presidency

The makeshift bandstand, at a trash-strewn intersection of roast chicken joints, features a guitarist and Andean flutist trying, not very successfully, to attract a crowd. It’s a sunny Sunday in the south Peruvian town of Moquegua, a one-time Inca stronghold, and any minute, the announcer promises, he will be here -- the next president of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski!

The music crescendos, flags flutter and the crowd grows to several hundred. But even after he arrives, emerging stiffly from a van, Kuczynski is hard to see. He chooses not to mount the stand but to give a 12-minute talk in front of it, speaking thoughtfully of transparent government, a new regional hospital and running water for 10 million Peruvians who lack it. He mingles briefly, then is on his way.