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Azucena Salazar

From Wall Street to the UN: Fujimori's Plan Could Reshape Peru's Security — With an All-Out War on Crime

Peru's President Keiko Fujimori attends a meeting of the multinational political and security coalition "Shield of the Americas" on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York, on September 22, 2026. (Credit: Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Less than two months into her presidency, Peru's Keiko Fujimori spent this week doing two things simultaneously on U.S. soil: courting foreign investors with a fiscal pitch anchored in $100 billion in reserves, and pledging before the United Nations to pursue criminal networks all the way from the triggerman to the financial structure that funds him.

For the roughly 750,000 Peruvians living in the United States — and the families back home who depend on the money they wire — that two-track message defines the presidency they either pinned their hopes on or feared from the start.

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