Keiko Fujimori finally took the oath as Peru's president with a narrow victory, after 15 years of campaigning and failing to be elected in 2011, 2016 and 2021.
This brief explains that the sheer labelling of right-wing victories as conservative or 'blue waves', and previous left-wing victories as the 'pink tide', is a shallow way of understanding democracy in Latin America.
The larger point being that both the right and left have become prominent political forces in the region, alternating in popularity and power: https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/can-peru-s-new-political-order-deliver-stability
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Can Peru's New Political Order Deliver Stability?
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