My parents saw in him a big economical change, possibilities to buy foreign products, to travel around the world, having the Nuevo Sol, as strong currency. My father was a well paid worker in an American company; from the year 1985 to 1990, during the government of Alan Garcia, his job was in risk, and not just his, but many corporations menace to go away from Peru since they needed to trade in Intis, a currency that started with bills of a maximum amount of 100 Intis to ending in 100,000,000 for 1990, an inflation that was provoked in part for the PhiloAmerican and Philodollar behavior of the Burgessy of Lima.
Fujimori, closed the 2 chambers of the parliament, very democratic and surprising very intellectuall skilled for the time for a 120 members and one chamber full of Yes man, more inclusive in the selection but with no intellectually or professional merits! Many people from the Andeans and from provinces of the coast far of Lima had their chance to be “Parents of the Country”; the new rich people thankful for the trust and especially for the millions of dollars they will get directly, or indirectly, by corruption put their mouth, hands, and efforts at disposal of Fujimori!
When there was something to approve, necessary for the interest of the Government, the saloon of the Congreso, looked like a “Deodorant Contest”.
He destroyed the 2 terrorist movements: Sendero Luminoso and MRTA, creating new laws and an exceptional process for the tipificate crime of betrayal of the country, written in the new constitution that he ordered to be prepared and get approved by his 120 well paid personal workers in record time.
He destroyed as well every national company, opening the doors for a “fair trade” where the national items were more expensive than articles coming from thousands of kms away. Me, I was sad loosing friends with who I played tennis and soccer, because as the children of little industrial, local families, they were forced to move to another country to try to live at least with dignity. Every week was the funeral for a graduate student from my military school, killed fighting the Civil War against the terrorist! In my opinion Fujimori, with his mass media control in television was taking away channels from owners that tried to be independent (See the case Channel 2 and Baruch Ivcher) in the press creating “Pasquin”, a type of newspaper given for 1Sol, full of naked women and bloody scenes on the front page, to then talk well about Fujimori (Case of El Chino, La Chuchi, etc), and as musical producer with his decadent and stupid: Baile del Chino. He destroyed any remaining value and dignity of the society, making more impossible the creation of a Peruvian nation. After he reformed his own recently approved constitution to be re-elected, I abandoned the country in 2001, wishing to never be in a place like that anymore.
Me, I was born in San Isidro Peru, and he was born in Kawachi Japan, so, based in Peruvian law, he couldn’t be candidate for president even having the citizenship if you were not born in the country; but this was not a problem for him, he created a space in the Peruvian book of births for himself, and he was born again in July 28 (Day of the Peruvian national independence from the Spanish Empire) in Lima Peru. So he come by boat from Japan to meet his look alike in Lima.
But this is not guilty of Fujimori, Peru, and specifically Lima where nothing moved if there was not a payment under the table, and Fujimori and his personal analyst, Vladimiro Montesinos understood that what most love their haters: The “Pitucos” from San Isidro and Miraflores is the smile of Benjamin Franklin printed on a bill!
Alan Garcia said that Jose de San Martin (independency mentor) decided to establish the 28 of July as the independence day because on this day was already holiday in Peru.