La década de Fujimoriascenso, mantenimiento y caída de un líder antipolítico

Résumé

This work seeks to identify the main variables which affected the rise, the maintenance and the fall of Alberto Fujimori, the most successful antipolitical leader in Latin America, whose aims delineated the course of the decade of the 1990s in Peru. The paper argues that his rise to power was directly influenced by the crisis of the party system and the crisis of other relevant institutions of the State, the presidential regime and electoral laws, joined with the economic crisis that the country was experiencing. Hís ability to remain in power was facilitated by the relative success of his government in the economic realm and in the fight against terrorism. However, his own desire to perpetuate himself in power, the unraveling of high-level corruption scandals and the worsening of economic conditions finally lead the regime to its end.