LIMA : Inauguration in Peru
Peruvian President-elect Alberto Fujimori takes office Thursday having lost the support of many former leftist allies because of what they consider the former educator’s turn to the right since beating novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in national elections last month.
His coalition Cabinet, meant to overcome narrow political divisions, has the largest military presence of any Peruvian government since 1987. Hurtado Miller, a center-right agronomist and economist, is the prime minister designate--a less powerful post than the presidency.
The son of Japanese immigrants, the new president inherits a ruined economy and a stalemated war with two leftist guerrilla insurgencies.
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