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Peru POLITICAL TRENDS
Roots of the 1990-91 Crisis
There was no single explanation for the nature and
severity
of the crisis Peru faced in the early 1990s. The
temptation to
blame García and APRA was a strong one, given their dismal
performance in government, but the crisis had much deeper
roots.
APRA inherited a nation beset with economic and social
problems,
but a political climate in which the consensus on the need
for
reform was unprecedented. The manner in which APRA
governed
resulted in an exacerbation of an existing breach between
state
and society. Consensus gave way to polarization and
fragmentation
of the party system, and economic policy fell prey to
internal
party politics, with disastrous results.
Data as of September 1992
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