Keiko Fujimori

  • association with Humala

    TITLE: Ollanta Humala
    As in 2006, Humala won the first round of voting and advanced to a runoff, this time with conservative congresswoman Keiko Fujimori. The two were engaged in a highly polarizing campaign in which Humala continued to face questions over his ties to Chávez and Fujimori confronted accusations that she was a proxy for her father, the former president (1990–2000) who was now imprisoned...
  • history of Peru

    TITLE: Peru: Return to civilian rule
    SECTION: Return to civilian rule
    ...of the political spectrum to face each other in a runoff election: Ollanta Humala, a leftist former army officer who had led a brief unsuccessful rebellion against Fujimori in 2000, and conservative Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of the imprisoned former president. In the runoff in June, Humala, who had lost to García in the 2006 presidential election and who sought to downplay his...