Fujimori Takes Office in Divided Peru | Philadelphia News

Philadelphia News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 28, 2026 · 1m

Keiko Fujimori has just become Peru’s president after a razor-thin election win, stepping into a deeply divided nation with a bold agenda to restore stability, crush crime, and revive the economy. As daughter of the controversial ex-president Alberto Fujimori, she’s inheriting a legacy of economic strength and human rights scandals—and now faces the challenge of healing a fractured country. With her party controlling half the senate, she’s well-positioned to push through her plans, including building a massive prison modeled after El Salvador’s, tackling rural malnutrition, and deploying the…