Author: Ernesto Garcia Calderon | Journal of Democracy

Ernesto García Calderón is a Peruvian journalist specializing in foreign affairs whose work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, and other U.S. newspapers. In 1999-2000, he held a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. He is currently the communications director of Transparencia, a Peruvian civic group devoted to promoting free and fair elections, and a foreign-affairs analyst for the Internet portal Terra.

April 2001, Volume 12, Issue 2

High Anxiety in the Andes: Peru’s Decade of Living Dangerously

Ernesto Garcia Calderon

The sudden and surprising downfall of President Alberto Fujimori has opened the way for a return to democracy in Peru, but the country’s new leaders will face major challenges in the coming years.