The Dantesque Decade of Fujimori and Montesinos

Peru, an ancient country with a turbulent history, is slowly overcoming the painful abominable decade (1990-2000) marked by the savagery, perversity, cannibalization, iniquity, cruelty, and abjection imposed by a civic-military dictatorship that, using strategies typical of a mafia, seized the governmental apparatus of the State and gave free rein to its insatiable hunger for power, greed, and depravity. The Peruvian people as a whole are not strangers to this ill-fated episode of their recent history. Driven by a majority collective unconscious of losers, and ancestrally clinging to irrational beliefs, they tend to fantasize and toy with providentialism in search of magical solutions. The political and moral collapse of the prolonged vladifujimorista nightmare had deep and underlying causes, contextual ones, and conjunctural internal and external ones, which brought about its resounding end.