Peru heads for presidential elections on June 6, when voters will have a choice between two very different candidates: left-wing trade unionist Pedro Castillo and far-right politician Keiko Fujimori.

Castillo was a relatively unknown figure when, in April 11, he took first place in the general election. A trade-union leader from a peasant background, he has drawn comparisons to Evo Morales, and the former president of Bolivia has eagerly endorsed Castillo’s candidacy. In the words of Morales: “Castillo has a program very similar to our own.”

Castillo’s right-wing opponent, Keiko Fujimori, has been less sanguine about the prospects of “twenty-first century socialism” coming to Peru. The daughter of dictator Alberto Fujimori, she has taken a page from her father’s playbook and launched a relentless red-scare campaign against her leftist rival, hoping to capitalize on the public’s lingering traumas from the bloody war against the Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organization the Shining Path.