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Fujimorismo's Sudden Collapse Shakes Peru's Politics

By Simeon Tegel

The consequences of the Fujimori family’s rapid decline have yet to be fully felt.

LIMA – Until recently, Keiko Fujimori appeared perfectly positioned in the run up to Peru’s presidential election in 2021.

The daughter of 1990s strongman Alberto Fujimori had come a close second in 2011 and 2016, and her Popular Force party’s absolute majority in Congress, which earlier this year forced the resignation of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, had made her arguably the most powerful person in Peru. 

That makes Fujimori’s recent arrest and the sudden collapse of Popular Force all the more...

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