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...Miguel La Serna [email protected] Los años de Fujimori (1990–2000) . By José Ragas . Historias Mínimas Republicanas . Lima : Instituto de Estudios Peruanos , 2022 . Photographs. Figures. Bibliographic essay. Index . 254 pp. Paper, S/45.00 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke...

... with a sense of grace, irony, humor, and intelligence that prove absent in his son’s book. In this case, the gift of flexibility and insight seems to have graced the older generation, not the younger. At the same time, The Madness of Things Peruvian refuses to acknowledge the success of the Fujimori...

...: General Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968 – 75), General Fran-cisco Morales Bermúdez (1975 – 80), Fernando Belaúnde Terry (1980 – 85), Alan García (1985 – 90), and Alberto Fujimori (1990 – 2000). Martín Sánchez creates the framework for his analysis by a methodology that draws heavily on the work of Michel...

... claims that Alberto Fujimori represents an attempt not to exert an ideologically inspired neoliberal project, but to lead a “state reconstruction coalition” designed to impose itself by authoritarian means. Mauceri’s book is a compact (only 155 pages of text) treatment of contemporary Peruvian...

... the armed forces from the government to Fujimori’s “self-coup”; Cameron’s chapter on “Political and Economic Origins of Regime Change in Peru” focuses on the first two years of the Fujimori regime and the reasons for the “self-coup.” Political economist Carol Wise addresses “State Policy and Social Conflict...

.... The patronazgo did not necessarily mean that presidents were corrupt, but the client relationships made the office of the president corrupt. Presidents like Fernando Belaúnde, Alan García, and Alberto Fujimori began their governments promising to fight corruption. They all ended up immersed in immense corruption...

.... Instead, in a classic case of bureaucratic politics, the CIA and Defense Department outweighed the State Department, which sought to temper unqualified U.S. support for the Fujimori government with pressure to improve its human rights record. The ensuing single-minded focus on drugs ultimately contributed...

... the potential for stronger social movements and institutions crashed on the rocks of unprecedented economic and political crises in the 1980s, dashing the hopes for using politics for social change and setting the stage for the technocratic rule of Alberto Fujimori. Alberto Vergara's essay posits that perhaps...

...) at turning Peru’s prisons into key fronts in its struggle against the “bureaucratic-capitalist state.” Rénique visited two of Peru’s most notorious prisons— Canto Grande, on the outskirts of Lima, and Yanamayo, the infamous prison built by the Fujimori government in the inhospitable altiplano, whose single...

... a rebuttal to the introduction. The CVR wrote in the face of great opposition from supporters of former president and dictator Alberto Fujimori, other conservative political parties, and the armed forces. These groups sought to sabotage the truth commission from the beginning and continue to go to great...

... the years of violence. The stakes for the armed forces in these memory struggles were—and remain—high. The military's reputation was seriously damaged following Alberto Fujimori's resignation amid a major corruption scandal that involved military leaders, among many others. Worse still, 46 of the 47 cases...

.... Of particular significance were Peru’s 20-year struggle with terrorism, concurrent economic turmoil, and the corruption and authoritarianism of the García and Fujimori regimes. During the Fujimori era, Peru’s armed forces remained largely submissive to his agenda, and the officer corps was damaged by widespread...

... Alberto Fujimori (1990–) used patronage and promotions to consolidate power in the presidency. Patricia Oliart, an IEP research associate, shows how President Fujimori’s “trustworthy paternalism” (p. 390) appealed to the darker, more humble, and harder-working elements of Peruvian society, thereby...

... of Peruvian culture and society. The anthology ambitiously covers a period from the pre-Columbian era to the neoliberal regime of Alberto Fujimori. Insightful scholarly essays from a variety of disciplines (by outsiders as well as Peruvians) help to put the documents, testimonies, and fiction of each...

... that guaranteed property rights as well as a departure from traditional politics. More than 70 percent of the people interviewed by Adams and Valdivia voted for Alberto Fujimori—attracted by his class and ethnic origin, his association with agriculture, and his call for hard work and economic progress...

... effectiveness of the main parties, and legitimacy accorded to the party arena by relevant actors. The last criterion is especially important, given the rise of antiparty populists such as Alberto Fujimori in Peru and Fernando Collor de Mello in Brazil. This is the best book ever produced on political...

... rhetoric against neoliberalism,” Gott observes, he makes “the right kind of reassuring noises that will not frighten the foreign investors” (p. 173). Gott does not raise theoretical questions such as whether the Chávez government fits the recent Latin American model associated with Alberto Fujimori...

... to conservatism, then back to the erratic interventionism of Alan García and finally to the neoliberalism of Fujimori, who had not campaigned on that platform (his opponent had) but had been quickly persuaded by the IFIs that this was the only option for Peru. Peru has suffered, along with many Latin...

..., and Fujimori—governments threatened by the drastic Sendero Luminoso insurgency. The authors account for the difference between the two hierarchies in terms of the prior histories of the two countries. In Chile, the Church, separated from the state in 1925, had accommodated itself well to the liberal...

... makes this account indispensable for understanding Itamaraty. The book also leaves the reader with the impression that Ecuadoran President Sixto Durán Ballen was more creative, responsible and flexible than was his Peruvian counterpart, Alberto Fujimori. One might attribute this to Fernández de...