Security & Strategic Review - October 2026

After avoiding any fireworks during her first month in office, in late August and early September Peru’s President Keiko Fujimori began moving on her promise of a hardline security strategy. Amid long-running concerns about deteriorating public security, epitomised two days later by the kidnapping of a mining businessman that left four other people dead, on 28 August the government asked congress for expanded security powers. These would enable Fujimori to legislate by decree on security matters and some other issues. The same day, Fujimori declared a state of emergency in the capital Lima and the neighbouring port city of Callao in response to concerns about organised crime.