Peru locked up Alberto Fujimori. Will it now elect his daughter president?

Peru locked up Alberto Fujimori. Will it now elect his daughter president?
Simeon Tegel
on Apr 10, 2016 @ 3:30 PM


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Peru's leading presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori revs up supporters during her closing campaign rally in Lima on April 7.

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Peruvians head to the polls this Sunday under the long shadow of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori.

His daughter Keiko, 40, is the front-runner in a splintered field, with a double-digit lead and about one in three voters backing her.

That has many here worried that the Andean nation may be about to repeat one of the bleakest chapters of its history, when Alberto Fujimori’s autocratic 1990-2000 government presided over serial human rights abuses and engaged in rampant corruption.

That includes sending in tanks to close down congress, harassing critics and the forced sterilization of thousands of mainly poor and indigenous women.

The disgraced 77-year-old is currently serving a 25-year sentence for ordering the kidnapping of two of his opponents, directing death squads against terrorism suspects and using public funds to pay corrupt journalists to smear his rivals. Anti-graft investigators say $600 million of taxpayers’ money vanished without trace during Fujimori’s presidency.

More:
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6757961/2016/04/10/peru-locked-alberto-fujimori-will-it-now-elect-his-daughter-president

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141410334