The bad news over the weekend were the latest opinion polls for the elections.
The 'nationalist candidate Humala and the only sensible candidate Flores are now neck and neck after the previous poll placed them eight points apart.
Whilst Peruvian opinion polls are notoriously inaccurate, the significance of these polls is that with most people making their minds up in the last couple of days they are likely to believe that Humala can win and vote for him.
This will invite anarchy and in the medium term disaster for the country.
This report on the BBC broadly explains what is going on, but as usual ignores the fact that the poor aren't the people that will take Peru forwards. International credibility and economic stability are not what we will get from an ex-army capitain with no political experience.