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Weekly Report - 14 July 2011 (WR-11-28)

Peculiar family piles pressure on Peru’s president-elect

When Ollanta Humala won election on 5 June what tipped the balance was a frank acknowledgement that while there might be “doubts” about him, there was “proof” that his rival Keiko Fujimori was a danger. Humala said it was not necessary to look beyond the rampant corruption of her father, Alberto Fujimori’s authoritarian government in the 1990s. Three weeks before he takes office on 28 July Humala has been caught up in a media storm over a trip to Russia by his brother Alexis to discuss business contracts. Alexis might have travelled in a personal capacity, as he claims, but his visit was sufficiently opaque for the largely hostile domestic media to raise the fear that the “doubts” about Humala were legitimate; that the nepotism and corruption he promised to root out might in fact thrive under him.

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