Polls suggest a tight race between Pedro Castillo, a far-left but socially conservative union leader and teacher, and Keiko Fujimori, the rightwing, neoliberal daughter of the jailed and disgraced former president.

It’s a choice between dying of hunger and dying of indignity.

Mario Vargas Llosa, who ran unsuccessfully against Alberto Fujimori in the 1990 elections – and who has spent the past 30 years attacking the dynasty’s toxic effect on Peruvian politics – recently called on people to back Keiko Fujimori, describing her as “the lesser of two evils”. The Nobel prize-winner said Castillo would undermine democracy, ruin Peru’s economy and leave the country “with all the characteristics of a communist society”.

Lol I wish Castillo was a communist, but the fact of the matter is that a socialist union leader is always going to be infinitely better than a reactionary who wants to continues her father's legacy of murdering and sterilizing Indigenous people. Hilarious how the communism no food argument is still being used unironically by Britain's "left wing" newspapers