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Fujimori's Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition

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Alberto Fujimori ascended to the presidency of Peru in 1990, boldly promising to remake the country. Ten years later, he hastily sent his resignation from exile in Japan, leaving behind a trail of lies, deceit, and corruption. While piecing together the shards of Fujimori\u2019s presidency, prosecutors uncovered a vast criminal conspiracy fueled by political ambition and personal greed. The Fujimori regime managed to maintain a facade of democracy while systematically eviscerating democratic institutions and the rule of law through legal subterfuge, intimidation, and outright bribery. The architect of this strategy was Fujimori\u2019s notorious intelligence advisor, Vladimiro Montesinos. With great skill, Fujimori and Montesinos created the appearance of a democratic public sphere but ensured it would work only to suit their personal motives. The press was allowed to operate, but information exchange was under strict control. The more government officials tampered with the free flow of ideas, the more they inadvertently exposed the ills they were trying to cover up. And that proved to be their downfall. Merging penetrating analysis and a journalist\u2019s flair for narrative, Catherine Conaghan reveals the thin line between democracy and dictatorship, and shows how public institutions can both empower dictators and bring them down.

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Title Fujimori's Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere
Author Catherine M. Conaghan
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 304
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press, USA
Date 2005-08
ISBN 9780822942597 / 0822942593
Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Peru - Politics and government - 1980-, Fujimori, Alberto
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005004967
Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Catherine M. Conaghan is professor of political science at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Her research has included fieldwork in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. She is the author of Fujimori's Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere and Restructuring Domination: Industrialists and the State in Ecuador, and is the coauthor of Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes. She has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Miami, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the University of San Diego, the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, American University, and the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Ecuador. In 2013 she was appointed as the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Latin American Politics.