Peru’s Keiko Fujimori wins presidential election, in latest victory for Latin American right

According to The Guardian, Keiko Fujimori has won Peru's presidential runoff by one of the narrowest margins in recent Latin American history. The fifty-one-year-old daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori defeated left-wing candidate Roberto Sanchez by fewer than fifty thousand votes out of nearly eighteen million cast. After authorities spent weeks reviewing contested ballots, Fujimori's victory marks another win for the region's resurgent political right. She's pledged to restore order and hope to the nation.

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