LIMA (Reuters) - For most of this year, Walter Aduviri, the governor-elect of Peru's Andean region of Puno, had been a fugitive.
The indigenous activist, 38, went into hiding after losing a sedition trial last year over deadly protests he led against Canadian mining company Bear Creek in 2011.
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