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Fujimori's Peru - Deception in the Public Sphere (Paperback, New edition)
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Fujimori's Peru - Deception in the Public Sphere (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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Alberto Fujimori ascended to the presidency of Peru in 1990, boldly
promising to remake the country. Ten years later, he hastily sent
his resignation from exile in Japan, leaving behind a trail of
lies, deceit, and corruption. While piecing together the shards of
Fujimori’ s presidency, prosecutors uncovered a vast criminal
conspiracy fueled by political ambition and personal greed.
The Fujimori regime managed to maintain a facade of democracy while
systematically eviscerating democratic institutions and the rule of
law through legal subterfuge, intimidation, and outright bribery.
The architect of this strategy was Fujimori’ s notorious
intelligence advisor, Vladimiro Montesinos. With great skill,
Fujimori and Montesinos created the appearance of a democratic
public sphere but ensured it would work only to suit their personal
motives. The press was allowed to operate, but information exchange
was under strict control. The more government officials tampered
with the free flow of ideas, the more they inadvertently exposed
the ills they were trying to cover up. And that proved to be their
downfall.
Merging penetrating analysis and a journalist’ s flair for
narrative, Catherine Conaghan reveals the thin line between
democracy and dictatorship, and shows how public institutions can
both empower dictators and bring them down.
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