The results of Peru's presidential election on Sunday could hinge on the votes of small, artisanal gold miners who benefit from loose regulations under an administrative program that was created in 2016 and originally ​slated to end in 2020.

In a tense Peru election, candidates Fujimori and Sanchez pitch solutions to rising crime and political instability ahead of the runoff.

After years of allegations of land dispossession by a now-dissolved Catholic group, the highest ecclesiastical authorities in the Andean country on Saturday held a symbolic reparation ceremony for the Indigenous people whose land was taken away.

Peru’s leftist presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez has gained ground against conservative Keiko Fujimori ahead of Sunday’s presidential runoff, though both candidates remained in a statistical tie,