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Fujimori Calls Urgent Security Cabinet as Latin America Faces Court Battles, Football Scandals and Emergency Criticism

Incoming Peruvian president is moving to approve emergency security decrees while simultaneous high‑profile prosecutions and institutional crises are forcing governments to shift priorities and face public scrutiny.

Overview

  • Keiko Fujimori has summoned her first Council of Ministers to begin approving emergency decrees on public security after her transition team reported expired medicines, undelivered school kits and no contingency plan in outgoing ministries.
  • Mexican federal judges have kept key suspects in preventive detention in a major fuel‑smuggling investigation linked to former governor Ernesto Ruffo Appel, and hearings at the high‑security El Altiplano prison remain in progress.
  • The Italian Football Federation publicly confirmed active talks to recruit Pep Guardiola to rebuild the national team, with formal meetings reported between FIGC officials and the coach but no agreement reached.
  • Argentina’s executive froze short‑term efforts to push a controversial club corporatization law and said it will defer to U.S. justice over FBI and court actions involving AFA figures while prioritizing an economic reform agenda.
  • The deadly Los Gallardos wildfire has provoked a partisan dispute in Andalusia over emergency warnings and response, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s televised interview drew internal PSOE criticism, and violent crime incidents such as the robbery of Gonzalo Montiel’s sister are adding pressure on public safety policy.