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...comparison of Fujimori's recent military takeover to the "smoking of a joint but not inhaling" is offensive. Isa the imprisonment of political leaders, the censorship of the press and the loss of liberty and rights something to jest about...
RELENTLESS TERRORISM AND ECONOMIC DISINTEgration dealt a mortal blow to Peru's fragile democracy. With military support, President Alberto Fujimori closed down Congress and the judiciary, suspended the constitution and said he would rule by decree. Troops and tanks surrounded the Palace of Justice and the parliament building; journalists and opposition politicians were placed under arrest...
While some expressed sympathy for Fujimori's plight, the U.S. cut off all new nonhumanitarian aid, and the Organization of American States scheduled an emergency meeting to consider economic sanctions of the kind imposed on Haiti's dictatorship...
...Peru the Evangelicals claim a mere 5% of the population, but they were as controversial a factor in last year's elections as they became in Guatemala. The presidential winner, Alberto Fujimori, ran on a ticket with Second Vice President Carlos Garcia, the Baptist president of the National Evangelical Council of Peru. Though Fujimori is a practicing Catholic and his opponent was an agnostic, anti-Catholic tracts prompted Lima Archbishop Augusto Vargas Alzamora to charge that Evangelicals "do not answer to the Christian tradition," and were waging an "insidious campaign." Peru's bishops organized a special pre-election procession...
...quarter of its $4 billion. Although both nations would like to cease their dependence on cocaine, they dare not press too strongly for fear of provoking civil unrest. In Bolivia the use of U.S. troops in 1986 to destroy drug labs sparked violent protests. Peru's new President, Alberto Fujimori, fearful of pushing recruits into the arms of the Shining Path guerrillas, has hesitated to unleash the full force of the military in interdiction efforts. Both countries prefer to tackle the coke problem economically by encouraging farmers to grow other crops...