Friday, July 29, 2016 Peru’s new president bets big on Cabinet of technocratsPeru’s newly sworn-in president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, walks with his new Cabinet ministers to the National Palace after his inauguration ceremony in Lima yesterday. Even Peru’s left wing, which had been in the political wilderness for decades, has a larger bloc in Congress now. At 77, Kuczynski is Peru’s oldest president. “I can’t remember in the country’s history such a pro-business Cabinet,” said Francisco Durand, who teaches political science at Lima’s Catholic University. He was elected in a June runoff by the thinnest of margins, just 41,000 votes over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 29, 2016 06:22 UTC