Word: llosa
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...Rafael Llosa's company has been lending money to some of the poorest people in Peru for 30 years. It used to be a fairly lonely endeavor. Giving tiny loans to impoverished women to make ceramics or to farmers to buy milk cows was hardly seen as a great business...
...organization Llosa runs, now called Mibanco, converted from a nonprofit into a bank, demonstrating what other microfinance institutions around the world knew too: that the poor are good risks who repay loans on time; get enough of them together, you can not only chip away at poverty but also turn a profit...
Fujimori has both a distinguished and an ignominious place in Peruvian history. The son of Japanese immigrants, he ran for the presidency in 1990 as an unknown, bolting from obscurity to beat the frontrunner, the country's best-known author Mario Vargas Llosa. Even though he had no experience in government, his administration swiftly dealt with runaway inflation, which was running near 8,000% when he took power. When Congress rejected strict anti-terrorism legislation, Fujimori simply closed it and the judiciary in April 1992, announcing that he would rule by decree. A few months later, the leaders...
...does, and often; as Comrade Arlette, a guerrilla fighter being trained by the Cuban revolutionaries; as Madame Robert Arnoux, the wife of a French bureaucrat; as Mrs. Patricia Robinson, the wife of a British racetrack regular; as Kuriko, the mistress of Japanese mobster; as Lucy, a broken woman. Vargas Llosa has worn many hats himself, from a prominent Latin American intellectual who hob-nobbed with the likes of Castro and Garcia Marquez to a one-time Peruvian presidential candidate, from a literary critic to a novelist and later a professor, from the husband of his aunt to the husband...
...Peru. Lima wants Fujimori to stand trial on charges including corruption and sanctioning death squads during his decade-long reign as president. The son of Japanese immigrants to Peru, Fujimori was an obscure agricultural engineer before he won the presidency in 1990, upsetting the popular novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. As president he was as loved for rescuing Peru's economy from near collapse and ending a violent Maoist insurgency as he was hated for trampling democracy and humans rights...