Peru's decade of living dangerously

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 46-58

  Calderón, Ernesto García ^a  

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References (11)

1. "Chino" is a generic nickname applied in Peru to any person of Asian descent, although it literally means "Chinese."
2. Fernando Rospigliosi, Montesinos y las Fuerzas Armadas. Cómo controló durante una década las instituciones militares (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2000), 21.
3. Washington Office for Latin America, Deconstructing Democracy: Peru Under Alberto Fujimori, executive summary, found online at www.wola.org/perudeconstructingdemo.html.
4. Fernando Rospigliosi, El arte del engaño. Las relaciones entre los militares y la prensa (Lima: Tarea Asociación Gráfica Educativa, 2000), 121.
5. Crousillat resigned in January 2001, but his family still owns and controls América. On 28 January 2001, its top journalist, Nicolás Lúcar, aired an unconfirmed report that deliberately attempted to link President Valentín Paniagua with Montesinos. The allegation was later proven false; Lúcar fled to Costa Rica amid unanimous popular outrage, having dealt a severe blow to América's already poor credibility.
6. Asociación Civil Transparencia, Datos Electorales No. 26 (Lima), 7 March 2000.
7. Coletta A. Youngers, "Peru: Democracy & Dictatorship," found online at www.wola.org/peru_colettaforeignpolicy_article.htm.
8. The suyos, the four regions into which the Incas divided their empire, corresponded with the four cardinal points of the compass. Toledo used traditional indigenous references throughout the campaign.
9. Julio Cotler, "La gobernabilidad en el Perú: Entre el autoritarismo y la democracia," in Julio Cotler and Romeo Grompone, eds., El fujimorismo. Ascenso y caída de un régimen autoritario (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2000), 70.
10. The Montesinos-CIA connection was the subject of an article by Washington Post staff writer Karen DeYoung: "'The Doctor' Divided U.S. Officials; CIA Defended Peruvian Against Human-Rights Accusations," Washington Post, 22 September 2000, 1.
11. García Sayán was himself under fire in February 2001 for allegedly deciding which "Vladivideos" would and would not be aired, with the aim of protecting his political allies during the campaign. (The government strongly denied the allegation.)