Peru's ninth president in a decade has spent her first two weeks making promises with real numbers attached and asking for a legal fast lane to deliver them. What she has not yet done, thirteen days into the job, is get that fast lane approved — or, in at least one region she visited before taking office, deliver on decrees she said would already be signed.
Keiko Fujimori, 51, was sworn in on July 28 after beating left-wing rival Roberto Sánchez by fewer than 50,000 votes in June's runoff. She is the ninth person to hold the office in ten years, a run in which only three predecessors actually won election outright; the rest arrived after a resignation or a removal by Congress, according to reporting from the ceremony itself.
