Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.
The unusually named candidate for the center-left Ahora Nación party won 34% of the vote. According to local media, the top three candidates were separated by just 42 votes.
Simeon’s candidate application form gives few details (and none about his name), apart from the fact that he manages the Simeon Sac Investment Group.
There have been other politicians called Hitler. In 2018, also in Peru, Hitler beat Lenin in another mayoral race for the district of Yúngar, when Hitler Guesclin Alba Sánchez defeated Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde.
“I’m the good Hitler,” Alba told broadcasters on the campaign trail, local media reported.
In Namibia, Adolf Hitler Uunona last year won his fifth local election in a row. “As a child I saw it as a totally normal name,” he told the BBC.
Different parts of the world have, you know, different perceptions because of different culture and history. For example, Nazi paraphernalia are popular in Thailand because they just aren’t aware of how bad the Nazis are like Imperial Japan is. Speaking of Imperial Japan, try waving the Imperial Japanese flag anywhere in Asia and you’d be slaughtered immediately. The Imperial Japanese flag doesn’t really elicit the same reaction in the West as the swastika.
So, I reckon that in South America, since they never directly fought against the Axis, the names of Hitler and Mussolini are trivial to them.