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American Political Science Review, December, 1993 by McClintock, Cynthia
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On April 5, 1992, Peru's eleven-year-old democracy was shattered by President Alberto Fujimori. Fujimori, who had been duly elected twenty months earlier, suspended the 1979 constitution, arrested several opposition leaders, padlocked the congress, and dismantled the judiciary. The autogolpe (coup by the president's own hand) was supported not only by most military officials and business elites but also--and more unusually in the Latin American context--by a large majority of the Peruvian people.
To understand the disillusionment of both Peru's elites and popular sectors with the ...
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