Fujimori on Trial
"In 1990, I received the country on the verge of collapse, overwhelmed by hyperinflation and terrorism,” Alberto Fujimori shouted defiantly ...
Fujimori and the Military: A Marriage of Convenience
Fujimori needed the military to sustain his new government. In turn, the military wanted to gain greater control over the ...
Peru: Oligarchs with New Faces
When speak- ing of the oligarchy in Peru or elsewhere in Latin America, one automatically thinks back to the beginning ...
The De Facto Powers Behind Fujimori’s Regime
Fujimori takes great pride in not being beholden to the interests of any particular group. He did not, for example, ...
Deciphering the Enigmas of Alberto Fujimori
How can we understand the many enigmas sur- rounding the presidency of Alberto Fujimori? Emerging practically out of nowhere, he ...
Plotting Fear: The Uses of Terror in Peru
In July 2000, I was invited by a colleague to attend a conference at San Marcos University in Lima at ...
A President Like You”: Fujimoris Popular Appeal
In the 1990 presidential election, political unknown IAlberto Fujimori conducted a deliberately simple campaign, in sharp contrast to the multimillion- ...
Unsettled Accounts: Militarization and Memory in Postwar Peru
On April 22, 1997, military commandos burst into the residence of the Japanese ambassador to Peru, where rebels of the ...
