Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori | AFP
Right-wing President Keiko Fujimori has named Peru’s next ambassador to the United States, a day after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited the Andean nation.
Fujimori, who took office in July, said on Friday that Alvaro Vargas Llosa — the son of the late Nobel Prize–winning author and politician Mario Vargas Llosa — had accepted the position.
“I believe Alvaro Vargas Llosa is going to be a great ambassador of Peru to the United States,” Fujimori said in an interview with Peru’s RPP radio station.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa responded in a post on X: “I will place my experience and knowledge, and my utmost effort, at the service of the mission entrusted to me, to safeguard Peru’s permanent interests… in accordance with the course set” by the president.
