Overview
- Keiko Fujimori, Mesías Guevara and Roberto Sánchez are slated to debate education, innovation and technology on Tuesday, March 31 in the JNE’s fifth presidential forum, following March 25’s much‑discussed exchange between Fujimori and Guevara.
- Peru’s race features a record 35 candidates with polls showing Keiko Fujimori and Rafael López Aliaga locked in a virtual tie near 11% as crime and corruption dominate voter worries and a large undecided bloc looms.
- The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals revoked on Friday the judgment that ordered Argentina to pay more than US$16.1 billion over the 2012 YPF expropriation, giving the Milei administration a judicial reprieve it moved to spotlight in a national address.
- At home, pressure on Chief of Cabinet Manuel Adorni intensified after a press briefing that critics said lacked supporting documents on his travel and assets, with online mentions jumping 224% and social groups planning assemblies on March 31 and a nationwide protest on April 7.
- War in the Middle East is reshaping schedules as FIFA declined to delay Iraq’s intercontinental playoff yet helped split the squad onto complex routes, including a FIFA plane and a Lisbon stop, to reach Monterrey, while Formula 1 canceled the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Grands Prix, creating a five‑week gap until Miami on May 1–3.