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Peru: Thousands Protest as Daughter of Imprisoned Ex-President Leads in Presidential Race

HeadlineMar 14, 2016

In other news from South America, former Congressmember Keiko Fujimori has increased her lead in Peru’s presidential race after two rivals were disqualified from running. She is the daughter of former right-wing Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, now in prison for crimes including ordering death squads to carry out massacres. On Friday, thousands marched against Keiko Fujimori’s bid ahead of first-round voting on April 10.

Gisela Ortiz: “She was complicit in a dictatorship in which human rights were violated, in which women were sterilized, in which a series of corruption crimes were committed in our country.”

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