Foreign Policy: Seven Questions: The Child Laborer Who Became President – Alejandro Toledo of Peru From: foreignpolicy.com
Tagged: family, Peru, ToledoPosted on: May 21st, 2008
When he was elected president of Peru in 2001, Alejandro Toledo became the first person of mixed Latino and Indian blood in 500 years to serve as the country’s political leader. Toledo started life so poor that he sold cigarettes and shined shoes on the streets to support his family and pay for his education. Today, he has made reducing poverty and inequality his fight.”*
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