... 3000 percent. An agricultural engineer born of Japanese parents, Mr. Fujimori was politically unknown until weeks before the vote, in which he surprisingly defeated the centre right coalition candidate, Mario Vargas Llosa. He inherited a country on the verge of economic collapse and racked by political violence. No one has made a bigger impact on Peru than Fujimori. He proved to be a practical leader ... ...

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