Ben Norton on Peruvian Election
After nearly a month, the US-backed, far-right electoral coup in Peru has succeeded. The daughter of the US-backed former fascist dictator, Fujimori, a convicted war criminal who committed genocide, has been installed in power.
The left-wing, pro-working class candidate, Roberto Sánchez Palomino, was winning when the votes were counted after the June 7 election, so the corrupt electoral authorities delayed the count and spent nearly a month cooking the books, overseeing some very extreme irregularities, especially with supposed votes from abroad that magically appeared and made Fujimori “win”.
Keiko Fujimori ran for president multiple times, but always lost, because she is extremely unpopular in Peru. But Trump and Marco Rubio made sure she would be put in power this time, just as they blatantly meddled in recent elections to support right-wing candidates in Argentina, Colombia, Honduras, etc.
Keiko’s father was the fascist dictator Alberto Fujimori, who, with US support, dissolved Congress, implemented mass privatizations, and committed genocide against indigenous peoples, sterilizing huge numbers of them without their consent (with funding from the US government).
The US-backed dictator was later formally convicted of corruption, bribery, kidnapping, murder, and crimes against humanity. His nepo baby daughter always defended his crimes, and the US empire just helped put her in power in an electoral coup.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) funded the so-called “family planning” program of Peru’s fascist dictator Fujimori.
This was used as cover to commit genocide against Indigenous nations, sterilizing nearly 300,000 people from 1996-2000.https://t.co/ikikPhdGOs pic.twitter.com/hgSAxJTxXw
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) July 4, 2026