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Alan Garcia became President of Peru in July 1985. Older structural problems - a legacy of an unequal pattern of development, a yawning gap in living standards, a weak import-dependent industrial base, an inefficient and ill-funded state - combined with newer problems like the effects of the debt crisis and the upsurge of guerrilla violence, to provide a particularly difficult inheritance. This book examines Garcia's administration and its effects on Peru. The author argues that initially Garcia was successful in tackling these problems but his government's strategy became distracted. As he left office in 1990, Peru's social, economic and political ills looked worse than ever. On the right his critics blames him for not liberalizing the economy and for his aggressive attitude towards the international financial community. On the left he was attacked for not going far enough in the other direction. "Peru Under Garcia" assesses the years of Garcia rule, charting the rise and fall of Peru's first-ever APRA government, analysing the causes of its undoing.
The book stresses the political as well as the economic constraints, emphasising the impact of the country's Maoist fundamentalists, Sendero Luminoso, in undermining the authority of the government.
The book stresses the political as well as the economic constraints, emphasising the impact of the country's Maoist fundamentalists, Sendero Luminoso, in undermining the authority of the government.