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A Vaccine for Venality: Peru’s Pandemic-Era Path to a Post-Fujimori Polity
A Vaccine for Venality: Peru’s Pandemic-Era Path to a Post-Fujimori Polity
April 5, 2021
Image depicts protests in the city center of Lima, Peru in November 2020.
In mid-February, Peruvian governmental corruption made international headlines once again when reports came out that almost 500 well-connected elites received Chinese Sinopharm vaccines before they were available to health professionals and the public. Though disheartening,  “Vacunagate” (Vaccinegate), as the media called it, wasn’t entirely out of the ordinary for Peru’s political class: all but one of Peru’s last eight presidents are currently in prison or under criminal investigation, as are 68 of 130 members of the unicameral legislative chamber. However, this scandal was particularly frustrating for Peruvians because it ensnared former president Martín Vizcarra, who until his ....

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