NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS

National Security Affairs

National Security Affairs

Introduction

The United States sent troops to Peru under the Andean Initiative of President Bush to stop the flow of narcotics from South America. This military strategy seems to run counter to the broader U.S. strategy of supporting and promoting democratic countries, especially those in the hemisphere. Indeed, President Fujimori says anti-drug effort undermines his attempts to unite the divided nation. The situation is compounded by the brutal terrorist group known as Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. Sendero appeared in 1980 as a result of centuries of division between the classes of Peruvian society. Led by Abimael Guzman, the group uses the vicious tactics against all strata of Peruvian society to achieve its aim of overthrowing the government. Worse yet, the Shining Path has developed a symbiotic relationship with the coca upper Huallaga valley, in the presence of the group share of the profits from drug smuggling to the U.S. Finally, the Peruvian military are ill-equipped and poorly led to a fight the rebels. Moreover, the military has one of the worst records in the world for human rights violations. Worse yet, the military seems to also support narcotraf-fickers.

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State Governor Perus type (democracy, Marxism explained if Peru supports or opposes the U.S. national strategy and interests and that the effects of regional and global levels. The second major transition and lead to the third main point. Keinya Inauguration of Alberto Fujimori as president of Peru on July 28 1990, there was a turning point for both Peru and America. Son of Japanese immigrants, Fujimori is the first person of Japanese descent to lead the American republic. agricultural engineer by training, Fujimori later became a professor and rector of the Peruvian National Agrarian University. His growth from political obscurity in thelate 1980 helped the national recognition he received as a host of public affairs television talk show. In the following, Alan Garcia Perez, Fujimori inherited the economy on the brink of collapse.

Peru's gross domestic product (GDP) fell to the twenty-eight per cent and real wages to sixty percent in the previous two years. Public spending outpaced revenues tripled. Annual inflation was at thirty-five hundred percent. External debt of almost $ 24 billion, while nearly $ 2 billion in International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans were defaulted on Peru. Twelve days after his inauguration, Fujimori imposed pro-gram of strict economic austerity measures. Known as "paquetzo", or violent package, the new program eliminated the old price subsidies on food and gasoline, while charging much higher prices for public services such as electricity. The purpose of Fujimori to balance expenditures with revenues.

State bureaucracy, including the courts, will work on behalf of the elite. While the poor are victims of their government, the rich live above the law. Peruvian society cursed history, rather than European colonization, but the Spanish conquest. Led by Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish mission was to extract as much wealth of the Incas as they could, as fast as they ...