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Peru Election: How Keiko Fujimori Turned Her Name Into an Asset

By Robert Kozak

The daughter of a former president leads Peru election polls despite her father's controversial legacy.

Hillary Clinton is not the only former first lady running for president in the Americas.

Keiko Fujimori, who served as first lady of Peru in the 1990s during the presidency of her divorced father, is the leading candidate heading into the South American nation’s election April 10. And as might be expected, the Fujimori family’s first time in the presidential suite is looming large this election – for better and for worse.

Peruvians hold still-fresh memories of the many wrongdoings during Alberto Fujimori’s authoritarian decade in power, a time marked by extrajudicial killings...

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