Mr Fujimori now looks far less able to resist international pressure for democratic reforms.
The state department said Mr Kerry would also discuss democratic reforms in Iraq.
Each of these might yet take unilateral action against Peru unless it is seen to be implementing democratic reforms.
Repressive governments in Swaziland and Eritrea have been told they might forfeit their duty-free export status unless there are democratic reforms.
The EU's foreign-policy chief, Cathy Ashton, is being showered with ideas: Germany says EU support (including lifting barriers to agricultural trade) should be linked to democratic reforms.
Several former U.S. officials said Washington needs to side more formally with Egypt's protesters and push Jordan, Yemen and other U.S. allies to more aggressively embrace democratic reforms.
So, he says, Brazil has since been pushing Mr Fujimori to take seriously proposals for democratic reforms put forward by the Organisation of American States (see article).
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In Belgrade, in what the State Department called her toughest meeting ever, she demanded that Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's leader, implement democratic reforms and turn over Serb war criminals.
Although a few fear chaos in Egypt once Mubarak's rule comes to an end, the incident in parliament last week has also renewed demands by opposition parties to press for more democratic reforms.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown disagreed, arguing that public opinion was on the side of reform, and angering some peers with an accusation that the House of Lords has "opposed fundamental reforms" including democratic reforms, throughout its history.
Officials traveling with him said he would press Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other senior officials on democratic reforms and directly urge them to stop overflights of Iranian aircraft carrying military personnel and equipment to support the Syrian government as it battles rebels.
Since then, the United States has reduced the pressure on Hosni Mubarak for real democratic reforms, in part because it regards him as a reliable ally and guarantor of stability in the Middle East. (Egypt receives almost two billion dollars a year in U.S. military and development aid.) During a January, 2007, visit to Egypt, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered nothing but praise for Mubarak.
More importantly, the kingdom of Morocco has made a series of democratic constitutional reforms over the past decade.
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The Christian Democratic opposition complained that the reforms were too complex.
His budget early in the year was a business-as-usual document with no reforms and even the Democratic-controlled Senate rejected it 97-0.
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The nearest thing to a Brazilian role model of a democratic president who pushed through tough reforms is none other than Lula's predecessor, Mr Cardoso.
In the small hours of December 15th, the Social Democrat-led government and the Christian Democratic opposition at last agreed to reforms (the so-called Agenda 2010) that may be the most ambitious seen in post-war Germany.
It also enacted some necessarily painful reforms that the previous Social Democratic-led coalition had funked.
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Republican and Democratic governors across the country developed these reforms.
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Our education reforms have been praised by both Democratic and Republican governors.
And the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee (at 10am) takes evidence from the Better Government Initiative, Unlock Democracy and Democratic Audit on the impact of the Wright reforms, which beefed up the legitimacy of Commons select committees.
For the first time in the kingdom's history, the newly formed Independent Elections Commission will oversee elections as part of reforms designed to make the country more democratic, according to Petra and King Abdullah II.
The Ulster Unionist Party and Democratic Unionist Party have also taken their seats despite opposition to some reforms.
The Assembly's Democratic majority was in closed-door session Monday to decide on reforms to avoid more sexual harassment by members.
This keeps a lot of Democratic politicians from supporting even the most basic, common-sense reforms, like your medical expert certification of all cases.
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One explanation is that he seems to represent German voters' own divided sentiments: he is at once a member of Mr Kohl's reassuringly conservative party and an embodiment of Christian Democratic values, while having the decisiveness needed to carry out the reforms that Germans in their hearts know the country needs.
And it raises a challenge, I think, to the democratic world, which has been trying for many years to bring about reforms in some of these countries.
After six months in power, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has shied away from many of its promised reforms, such as spending cuts.
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