Twenty-six years after Alberto Fujimori resigned via fax from Japan, as his government crumbled following the exposure of a widespread corruption scandal, Fujimorism has returned to power in Peru. His daughter, Keiko Fujimori, will be sworn in as president of the Republic on July 28, the day Peru commemorates its independence. At 51, she becomes the first woman elected by popular vote to lead the country. Her inauguration brings to a close a long journey marked by three failed presidential campaigns, but it also ushers in a government born amid deep polarization: for some, it represents the promise of economic stability; for others, the return of a political project that rubs salt into wounds that never fully healed. Fujimori received the presidential sash amid applause after taking the oath of office and vowed to lead a “safe, prosperous, and united” country.
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