New Delhi, July 29 -- LIMA - The ceremony was barely an hour old when Cesar Fuentes, a retired schoolteacher who had watched the proceedings on television in his Lima apartment, put into words what Peruvian politics had been circling for months. "She is going to be a replica of her father," he said.

Keiko Fujimori, a 51-year-old conservative and the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, was sworn in on Tuesday at the Peruvian Congress in Lima, becoming the country's ninth president in a decade on a platform built around iron-fist crime reduction measures that her supporters say the country desperately needs and her critics say are constitutionally dangerous. Her oath of office, "I swear that I will faithfully carry out the dutie...