Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Peru awaits results for its presidential election, acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez visits India and Turkey, and the World Cup kicks off in Mexico City. Peru Awaits Election Results Peru’s presidential runoff on June 7 was so close—and vote counting so slow—that it could be weeks before the results are fully confirmed. As of Thursday afternoon local time, with 98.2 percent of ballots counted, fewer than 1,000 votes separated right-wing Keiko Fujimori from her left-wing opponent, Roberto Sánchez. Both candidates are former lawmakers, but while Fujimori rose to…
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