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State Reform, Coalitions, and The Neoliberal Autogolpe in Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Philip Mauceri
Philip Mauceri*
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University of Northern Iowa
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When President Alberto Fujimori suspended constitutional rule in April 1992, he ended Peru's twelve-year experiment in civilian democratic governance. Citing the growing insurgency of Sendero Luminoso, corruption in the political parties, and difficulties with the Peruvian Congress in passing his economic program, Fujimori announced that democracy would have to be “temporarily suspended” in order to build new institutions. This move was backed by the armed forces. Perhaps most surprising to outside observers was the widespread popularity of Fujimori's move, which reflected the growing disenchantment with traditional political parties of the right and the left. Democratic procedures and institutions during the 1980s had been precarious at best. The military's counterinsurgency campaign against Sendero Luminoso had transformed Peru into one of the hemisphere's worst offenders against human rights, with the highest number of forced disappearances in the world. But despite documented cases of torture and other violations of human rights by state authorities, Peruvian military forces acted with the knowledge that they were virtually immune from prosecution.

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Research Article
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , 1995 , pp. 7 - 37
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Copyright © 1995 by the University of Texas Press

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I would like to thank Jo Marie Burt, Max Cameron, Cynthia McClintock, Michael Smith, Carol Wise, and the LARR editors and anonymous reviewers for the comments on earlier versions of this article. I also wish to acknowledge the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos in Lima for providing a welcoming and stimulating environment during my many visits.

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