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President-elect Keiko Fujimori is described as taking office July 28 after a narrow June 7 runoff victory over Roberto Sánchez, with pledges for market-friendly reforms and a crime crackdown.
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President-elect Keiko Fujimori is described as taking office July 28 after a narrow June 7 runoff victory over Roberto Sánchez, with pledges for market-friendly reforms and a crime crackdown.
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Keiko Fujimori holds a very narrow lead over Roberto Sanchez more than a week after voting, while Sanchez alleges irregularities and seeks a recount.
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Off Leash update 27 July 2026 COMING UP THIS WEEK •Today, North Korea celebrates Victory Day - a commemoration of the Korean War armistice that was neither a victory nor a real end to the war (which is technically still ongoing). •Peru's president-elect, conservative Keiko Fujimori, takes office tomorrow, following her slim victory over leftist Roberto Sánchez in the June 7 runoff. Like other modern conservative leaders in Latin America, Fujimori has pledged to effect market-friendly reforms and crack down on crime. •The Commonwealth Games close on Sunday in Glasgow. •Delegates to OPEC+ - a cartel of oil-producing nations - meet Sunday to set output targets for September. Analysts expect them to agree to another modest production increase of about 180,000 barrels per day - about the same added in each of the past three months. COMMODITY AND COIN MARKET PRICES •Aluminum: $3,160/ton •Antimony (global avg.): $34,315/ton •Bitcoin: $65,200 •Cobalt: $56,290/ton •Copper: $13,645/ton •Ethereum: $1,964 •Gold: $4,091/toz •Lead: $1,887/ton •Natural Gas (Nymex): $2.74/MMbtu •WTI Crude Oil (Nymex): $84.09/barrel •Zinc: $3,592/ton IRAN •The Pentagon signaled a pause in strikes on Iran, ending two weeks of nightly strikes. •The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East - CENTCOM Commander Adm. Bradley Cooper - reportedly advocated the pause, reasoning that the current campaign had succeeded in taking out 80% of CENTCOM's high-priority targets and had reached the limit of its effectiveness against the remaining 20%, which are harder to hit. •Other U.S. military advisors - including Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine - backed the pause for a more concerning reason. They worry that Iran's retaliatory fire has depleted the U.S.'s regional inventory of Patriot interceptors and other air defenses, leaving U.S. military sites and other targets in Gulf countries vulnerable to incoming strikes - like the ballistic missile that slipped through to kill three U.S. soldiers in Jordan last week. •Iran reciprocated and announced that it, too, would pause strikes. UKRAINE •Ukraine irked Iran on Saturday when it struck "vessels used in military cargo shipments involving Iran" in the Caspian Sea. •Iran accused Ukraine of acting "at Israel's behest," but the Caspian strikes also served Kyiv's interests: the vessels they targeted were reportedly transporting Iranian-made drones to Russia to be used against Ukraine. [Iran's Foreign Ministry unconvincingly denied that charge, saying Iran "has never intervened in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine."] YEMEN •Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthi rebels exchanged more fire over the weekend. •Saudi targeted Houthi military sites in Hodeida in return for Houthi attacks on tankers in the Red Sea, and the Houthis retaliated with missile strikes that damaged a Saudi oil refinery near Jizan. •The Houthis also tried to target a second Saudi oil refinery near Yanbu, but Greek operators used a U.S.-made Patriot air defense system to intercept at least two Houthi missiles. INDIA •India's Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) won its feud with scandal-plagued education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and Pradhan tendered his resignation. •Pradhan was one of Prime Minister Modi's most loyal deputies, so his resignation is a blow to Modi, who styles himself as a strongman whose ministerial choices are unaccountable to public approval. Pradhan is only the second Modi-appointed minister to resign - despite Modi's best efforts to insulate him from the fallout from scandals that happened on his watch. •CJP "members" and supporters were jubilant to see their street protests effect change, and many are now motivated to turn their sights on other targets in Modi's government that are overdue for reform. For starters, they want deeper changes to India's broken exam system and are demanding that the government drop the criminal cases it opened against some of them during protests. MALI •The Trump administration is reportedly considering carrying out military strikes against Al Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) militants in Mali. •U.S. intervention against JNIM would serve a secondary purpose beyond doing Mali's feckless military a favor by hobbling an adversary that regularly outfoxes them. If successful, it would show that the U.S. can succeed where the junta's hired Russian guns have failed, and thereby cast the Russians as ineffective security partners - not only in Mali, but in other African countries that work with Russia's Africa Corps. •One U.S. official alluded to this ulterior motive in an unattributed interview with the Washington Post: "We hope that other African nations take note of Russia’s terrible performance in combating terrorism." SUDAN •Sudan's military boasted that it had recaptured the Al Sadarat highway from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over the weekend. •Al Sadarat is a key link between the government-controlled capital of Khartoum and the North Kordofan regional capital of el Obeid, which is under an RSF siege and looks likely to be the prize in the next major battle between the RSF and the military. Control of Al Sadarat will allow the military reopen a much faster supply route that it can use to equip its troops in the fight for el Obeid.
Open source reportOff Leash update 15 June 2026 COMING UP THIS WEEK •France is hosting the first G7 summit since the Iran war began today through Wednesday. Pres. Trump is attending, as are the leaders of the other six G7 countries and guest nations like India, Ukraine, and the UAE. •DRC Mining Week takes place Wednesday through Friday in Lubumbashi. •The U.S. and China celebrate two very different holidays on Friday: the U.S. celebrates Juneteenth, while China celebrates the annual Dragon Boat Festival. Financial markets will be closed in both countries in observance. •Sunday is Father's Day in the U.S. and election day in Colombia, where Abelardo de la Espriella faces Iván Cepeda in a run-off for the presidency. De la Espriella - a right-wing businessman who styles himself after Pres. Trump - leads Cepeda - a left-leaning continuity candidate - in polls, but not by much. COMMODITY AND COIN MARKET PRICES •Aluminum: $3,535/ton •Antimony (global avg.): $34,935/ton •Bitcoin: $65,603 •Cobalt: $56,290/ton •Copper: $13,698/ton •Ethereum: $1,718 •Gold: $4,327/toz •Lead: $1,966/ton •Natural Gas (Nymex): $3.05/MMbtu •WTI Crude Oil (Nymex): $80.39/barrel •Zinc: $3,584/ton IRAN •The U.S. and Iran agreed to a "framework" for a peace deal that would reportedly lift both of their blockades on the Strait of Hormuz and end their conflict without addressing Iran's nuclear ambitions. •The truce allows 60 days for further negotiations on the thornier issues they still dispute, like whether Iran will be allowed to keep parts of its nuclear program and whether the ceasefire extends to Lebanon. That's a short timeline: it took around 10 times as long to hammer out Iran's previous nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. •Pres. Trump told the NYT that if a new final deal can't be closed within the new framework's much shorter time horizon, "the U.S. will resume attacks on Iran and become the guardian of the Middle East, receiving 20% of the region’s profits." •Both sides seem happy to have reached an agreement, but they may be celebrating prematurely. The new deal isn't public yet and won't be signed until Friday, and American and Iranian officials are giving vastly different accounts of its terms, raising doubts as to whether they've actually agreed to anything consequential. •For example, Iranian officials claimed that the U.S. had already agreed to release $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets, while Pres. Trump portrayed the release of frozen funds as a carrot that Iran would only earn if it behaved well. •Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif - who was involved in mediating the agreement - suggested the draft still has powerful critics who he accused of waging an "incessant misinformation campaign...to sabotage the peace deal." VENEZUELA •A U.S. airstrike in Venezuela's Bolívar state killed Héctor Guerrero Flores (aka Niño Guerrero), the head of the Tren de Aragua gang that the U.S. has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. •Pres. Trump said the operation was "coordinated closely with our friends in Venezuela, with whom we are working very well." Venezuelan officials confirmed it had been a "joint operation." •It was certainly more effective than Venezuela's previous government's efforts against Guerrero. Under Nicolas Maduro's regime, corrupt prison guards took bribes to let Guerrero escape - twice - and turned a blind eye to plush improvements Guerrero made to Tocorón Prison to make his stay there more comfortable, including a zoo, nightclub, betting parlor, and swimming pool. PERU •Peru's presidential election is still too close to confidently call more than a week after polls closed. •Right-wing Keiko Fujimori has a razor-thin lead over left-wing Roberto Sanchez, who alleged there had been voting irregularities and asked for a recount. SWITZERLAND •Swiss voters rejected a proposed ballot measure to implement the world's first-ever population cap. •Unusually for an immigration-related question, pre-referendum polling estimated the actual result - 55% against vs. 45% in favor - almost perfectly. As anticipated, the measure enjoyed stronger support in rural areas than in cities and border areas. UK •The UK's Prime Minister Starmer said his government will join Australia and several other countries in introducing a social media ban for children under 16. •Starmer's office followed proper British procedure and conducted a lengthy consultation process before deciding to act. It found that 90% of the 116,000 parents who voluntarily responded to its survey supported a ban, and 85% felt social media brings more risks than benefits. •The ban is slated to start in early 2027.
Open source reportOff Leash update 1 June 2026 COMING UP THIS WEEK •Ethiopia votes in parliamentary elections today. Abiy Ahmed's ruling Prosperity Party is sure to win, since large parts of the rebellious regions of Amhara and Tigray won't vote and Abiy's strongest rivals have been sidelined or jailed. •The Oslo Freedom Forum - Human Rights Foundation's annual summit - starts today. This year's speakers include Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and actor Richard Gere, who played a victim of human rights abuses in Red Corner and Bent (and is also an established rights advocate off-screen). •Saturday is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day. •Sunday is a big day for elections: Armenia and Kosovo vote in parliamentary polls, and Peru votes in a run-off presidential election. In Peru, right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has a narrow polling lead over leftist candidate Roberto Sanchez. COMMODITY AND COIN MARKET PRICES •Aluminum: $3,667/ton •Antimony (global avg.): $35,474/ton •Bitcoin: $72,614 •Cobalt: $56,290/ton •Copper: $13,636/ton •Ethereum: $1,982 •Gold: $4,510/toz •Lead: $2,016/ton •Natural Gas (Nymex): $3.33/MMbtu •WTI Crude Oil (Nymex): $90.40/barrel •Zinc: $3,540/ton COLOMBIA •Far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella won the first round of Colombia's presidential election, but with less support than he needed to win the presidency outright. He'll face far-left candidate Iván Cepeda in a run-off on June 21. •President Petro - who backed Cepeda - rejected the result, citing (but not substantiating) irregularities. IRAN •Iran and the U.S. traded strikes over the weekend, but continued to exercise restraint: the U.S. said its strikes were in "self-defense," and Iran said it was merely retaliating against the U.S. strikes. •Several reports suggested that Pres. Trump sent a draft agreement back to Iran with some proposed changes to Iran's offer, but other accounts suggest there isn't much room to negotiate between the two sides' demands. •U.S. ships have reportedly quietly escorted around 70 commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz in the past three weeks. That's an approximate figure, since the U.S.-guided passages have been "dark," with transponders turned off, and probably hugging the Omani coast to stay as far as possible from Iranian fire. It corresponds to an average of about three vessels per day, which is far short of the 100 per day that transited the Strait pre-war. RUSSIA •The French Navy intercepted and boarded a sanctioned and false-flagged Russian oil tanker, the Tagor, in international waters about 400 nautical miles west of Brittany. •Pres. Macron justified the seizure in a post on X: "It is unacceptable for ships to circumvent international sanctions, violate the law of the sea, and fund the war that Russia has been waging against Ukraine for more than four years." It was the fourth time the French Navy has boarded a Russian "shadow fleet" tanker since Sep. 2025. •The Kremlin complained about the "illegal" seizure, which it said was "bordering on international piracy." VENEZUELA •The AP reported on emerging rifts in interim President Delcy Rodriguez's government, with longtime Maduro loyalists criticizing Rodriguez's reforms. They particularly object to her deportation of close Maduro ally Alex Saab to face trial in the U.S., and her authorization for U.S. forces to conduct training in Caracas. •Andrés Izarra - who served as communications minister under Hugo Chavez and tourism minister under Maduro before falling out with Maduro's cronies and fleeing into exile - said the divide isn't about Chavismo ideology, which Izarra thinks died with its founder in 2013. Rather, "since there is no ideological foundation, it is simply a struggle for power, money, positions, and survival."
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