Keiko Fujimori takes Peru presidency with crime crackdown and investor push
Keiko Fujimori, the conservative daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, was sworn in as Peru’s ninth president in a decade, pledging to restore order and pursue a pro‑business agenda to attract private investment, including naming former central banker Elmer Cuba as finance minister. Her Popular Force party controls the largest bloc in a polarized Congress, and she faces protests and a fragmented political environment even as she aims to curb rising crime tied to illegal gold mining and the cocaine trade, amid a regional shift to the right and looming El Niño disruptions.
