“I called my students who have a basic cellphone, and the father answers you from the farm. But now he went further, tossing his name into a crowd of 18 candidates in Peru's presidential election. Defying the polls, the elementary school teacher came first in the April 11 voting, albeit with less than 20% of the overall vote. He is Catholic and his wife, Lilia Paredes, a rural teacher like him, and his two children are evangelical. He was an active rural teacher until 2020.

Source: ABC News April 18, 2021 13:56 UTC