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- <title>
- Aug. 20, 1990: World Notes:Peru
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 20, 1990 Showdown
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 55
- World Notes
- PERU
- A Shock to The System
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> When Alberto Fujimori was running for President, he promised
- he would not try to revive Peru's disastrous economy with shock
- tactics. Last week Fujimori's two-week-old government unveiled
- an austerity plan that prompted protests and food riots.
- Overnight the price of gasoline jumped from 10 cents per gal.
- to more than $2, and food prices rose 300%. In Lima at least
- three people were killed by police and army troops, who were
- enforcing a state of emergency invoked two days before the
- measures were made public. The plan calls for taxes to be
- raised, import duties to be enforced and controls on currency
- exchange to be lifted.
- </p>
- <p> Many Peruvians said they felt betrayed by their new
- President. Fujimori has promised $450 million to help the poor
- survive the economic adjustment, but some Peruvians fear that
- if the situation gets worse, the army will be needed to
- maintain order.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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