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      "title": "Peru: Recovery from Crisis",
      "summary": "Peru survived constitutional and political crises in 1999 and 2000 and now faces the challenges\nof\nfurther strengthening democratic institutions and stimulating the economy. President Alejandro\nToledo assumed office on July 28, 2001. He won extraordinary elections that had to be organized\nfollowing the sudden resignation in November 2000 of President Alberto Fujimori in the wake of\nelectoral, human rights, and corruption scandals.\n  President Fujimori headed Peru from 1990 to 2000. During that time he did much to bring\nunder control destabilizing factors such as terrorism, drug trafficking, hyperinflation, and border\ndisputes. But Fujimori also led the country into constitutional crises, and his efforts to remain in\npower eroded democratic institutions. Allegations of electoral fraud and an eruption of scandals\ninvolving his top aide led to his sudden resignation, after which constitutional succession passed the\npresidency to the President of the Congress, Valentin Paniagua, in November 2000.\n  The immediate challenge facing the interim government was to organize new presidential and\nparliamentary elections. First and second round elections on April 8 and June 3 were widely praised\nas being free and fair, and Alejandro Toledo was elected President. The Toledo administration faces\nthe more long-term challenge of maintaining stability while trying to strengthen democratic\ninstitutions weakened by 10 years of a democratically elected, but autocratically run, government.\n  Peru is located along the Andean mountains of South America. Although economic conditions\nhave improved over the last five years, there is still extensive poverty in Peru. Peru has a free market\neconomy.\n  The United States and Peru have enjoyed generally friendly relations over the past decade,\nalthough the recurring political crises of the Fujimori government strained those relations. The\nprimary U.S. interest in Peru has been the reduction of illicit narcotics production and trafficking. \nOther stated goals of U.S. assistance are: broader citizen participation and more responsive\ngovernment; increased incomes for Peru's poor; improved health of high risk populations; and\nimproved environmental conditions. The United States pressed the Fujimori government to improve\nrespect for human rights; for much of his term Fujimori's regime had one of the worst human rights\nrecord in the hemisphere. Both the interim and the Toledo governments have taken steps to improve\nrespect for human rights. The United States has been concerned about security in Peru and in the\nAndean region as a whole.\n  The U.S. Congress has expressed concern about the development of democratic institutions in\nPeru, and has conditioned aid on the respect for those institutions, and for human rights, and the\nholding of free and fair elections. Congress has also expressed concern about the case of Lori\nBerenson, an American prisoner in Peru; the relationship between U.S. agencies and Peru's spy\nchief, Vladimiro Montesinos; and whether to resume a joint aerial drug-interdiction program that\nwas suspended after the accidental shooting of an American missionary plane.",
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