Peru’s runoff election campaign heated up as candidate Roberto Sánchez challenged Keiko Fujimori to a public debate, proposing they start in Chota. Fujimori fired back, suggesting they meet instead in Huaral, Sánchez’s hometown. The exchange, while seemingly trivial, carries political symbolism: Chota, in the northern highlands, is historically hostile territory for the Fujimori dynasty — it was the place where her father, Alberto Fujimori, was famously confronted by locals decades ago.
From Beijing’s banquet halls to Havana’s darkened streets, from Sydney’s courtrooms to Jerusalem’s contested alleyways, May 14 offered a snapshot of a world grappling with power — who wields it, who suffers without it, and who is simply nowhere to be found.
