The Businessman of the State

PERU started to loom large on my radar screen when my son, Tom, became engaged to a Peruvian woman named Anna Morales. After his first visit to his future parents-in-law, in 1992, he recounted his amazement at how life went on in Lima, notwithstanding the recurrent bombings.

When we all got together as a family in Peru in 1993, there were very few bombings. People were filling the cafés in the late evenings, and the traffic was horrendous, as one would expect in what is now a bustling economy. The economic activity, and the relative freedom, are due in no small part to Peru’s president, Alberto Fujimori.

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Thomas L. Rhodes

PERU started to loom large on my radar screen when my son, Tom, became engaged to a Peruvian woman named Anna Morales. After his first visit to his future parents-in-law, in 1992, he recounted his amazement at how life went on in Lima, notwithstanding the recurrent bombings.

When we all got together as a family in Peru in 1993, there were very few bombings. People were filling the cafés in the late evenings, and the traffic was horrendous, as one would expect in what is now a bustling economy. The economic activity, and the relative freedom, are due in no small part to Peru’s president, Alberto Fujimori.