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Last year, Pedro Castillo surprisingly managed to win the presidential election in Peru.

Shortly before, almost nobody had him on the screen, at least not in the capital Lima.

When Keiko was in the runoff against the Fujimori subsidiary, some television stations didn't even have a photo of him to hand.

From then on, the Andean state had a former trade unionist and village school teacher from the neglected highlands at the head of the state, a representative of the marginalized majority of Peruvians.

"No more poor in a rich country" was his campaign slogan.

The symbol of his movement: a pencil.

That should mean more education.

But even then, anyone who wanted to could become suspicious.

His party sees itself as Marxist-Leninist, even if Castillo distanced himself from this ideology.

"We are not communists," he said at the time.

That actually applied to himself.

Nevertheless, he agreed with his critics, who were worried about a second Venezuela, to a certain extent.

In the wake of many allegations of corruption and shortly before a vote of no confidence, he launched a coup on Wednesday.

But the military, police and Congress did not go along with it.

Castillo was arrested.

The three-hour coup failed.

The already low level of trust in politics is gone again.

Almost all presidents of the past 40 years have had to deal with the judiciary sooner or later.

Now the youngest beacon of hope has joined this inglorious squad.