Political Opinion
Peru: Fujimori Syndrome
Jose Carlos Luque Brazan
In April 1990, when the then academic the Agrarian University La Molina, Ingeniero Alberto Fujimori began his campaign with support from Alan García, not imagined that the path that started on board his tractor opened a new and unexpected phase policy in Peru, which endures to this day, regardless of the trial and conviction by a court of law by Fujimori to Peruvian human rights violations.
The reasons behind this statement lies in the continuing role played by Fujimori in the Peruvian political decisions in the last 19 years. For more than 10 years hard that his presidency, Fujimori was able to transform and reduce the institutional structure of the Peruvian State. I just with the guerrillas of the Shining Path, laid the foundations of a market economy and remove the inflationary chaos in the government of Alan García to over seven thousand percent (7000%). On the external front solved the conflict with Ecuador and Peru to the new position in international markets. But not everything was smoothness in his government, his second board, the attorney Vladimiro Montesinos built a network of informal power, based around the National Intelligence Service, which implements a series of perverse logic that had its main strengths in systematic violations human rights and to blackmail political opponents and their allies and economic partners. As an example we have in the retina the massacre of students and a professor at the University Cantuta, the case of Barrios Altos and the famous video in which Montesinos delivered a bundle of tickets to a local politician.
Today, Fujimori has been in theory 8 years away from power, from his stays in Japan, Chile and Lima prisons, has made a series of actions to defend the legacy of his administration, but not only, also managed along with their political allies to the position "Fujimorism" as the third force in the Peruvian Congress, and his daughter Keiko Fujimori and his political heir to the candidate with more support in polls to succeed President Alan García in 2010 . According to the latest survey produced by the Universidad Catolica del Peru, Keiko Fujimori has 19% of the voting preferences of citizens, despite the fact that his father was convicted three weeks ago by a court for human rights violations. What explains the centrality of Fujimori and the Peruvian Fujimorism in politics?
A first approximation to construct an explanation lies in a basic element of policy coherence in Fujimori. He has never denied his political opponents have never had the strength to change or at least transform their legacy, the current Constitution is the work of Peru's Fujimori, the current economic model is the work of Fujimori, even the current political system only sense revolves around whether Fujimori.
The live Peru "Fujimori Syndrome," and no surprise that the next president of this Andean country and is a woman named Fujimori. While his political rivals did not build an agenda where the former president is not the actor, the agenda will be Peruvian Fujimori.
Guest Author: José Carlos Luque Brazan
Anthropological Politico
DF, Mexico Auctonoma-University of Mexico
Guest Author: José Carlos Luque Brazan
Anthropological Politico
DF, Mexico Auctonoma-University of Mexico




