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PERU. President Alberto Fujimori is credited with knocking the wind out of the brutal Shining Path insurgency by capturing or killing its leadership, but 1,692 people were killed in guerrilla and counterinsurgency violence last year. Terrorism caused $1 billion worth of damage...
LIKE A BIG-GAME HUNTER DISPLAYING HIS PRIZE catch, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori paraded Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman Reynoso before the people. Guzman, wearing prison pinstripes and surrounded by hooded guards, was placed in a cage aboard a gunboat and transferred from his island prison to a maximum-security windowless cell at a navy base on the mainland. Fujimori staged the media event to draw attention to the successes of his war on terrorism and to justify his "government of emergency" declared a year ago. The boasting did not go unanswered. In a violent response, Shining Path guerrillas...
Encouraged by his 65% approval rating, President Alberto Fujimori thought that the candidates he supported for Peru's new Congress would easily win more than half the 80 seats up for grabs in last week's election. Although the vote is still being counted, his delegates seem to have won a comfortable 43 spots if not an overwhelming mandate. Yet the election was a no-lose situation for the President. By scheduling the vote, Fujimori gave the signal that he is committed to restoring Peru's democratic institutions...
Although the immediate credit goes to the painstaking work of DINCOTE, Peru's anti-terrorism squad, Fujimori will reap the biggest reward. He had promised to pacify the country by the time his term ends in 1995. But he lost international support in April, when he unilaterally dissolved Peru's Congress, shut down the courts and suspended the constitution -- largely in the name of thwarting Shining Path. Frustrated Peruvians approved, but the U.S. was so angry that it suspended aid. Now, in the congressional elections that Fujimori has called for Nov. 22, candidates who back him are expected...
...whether Shining Path withers or grows strong again depends on how well the government performs. The conditions that gave rise to the insurgency back in the 1970s -- poverty, injustice, deep resentment over racial and class distinctions -- still prevail. Until Fujimori finds a more stable, equitable, democratic course, there will be impoverished Peruvians willing to subscribe to an alternative vision, no matter how ruthless or violent...