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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: Peru Defeats Chavez by Michael Radu |
 | | That said, his previous administration (1985-90) almost brought the country to its knees with rampant inflation (3,000 percent by 1990) and rampant corruption matched by the spectacular advance of South America's bloodthirsty Maoist insurgency in the form of the Communist Party of Peru (wrongly but melodiously known as Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path). |
 | | Second, widespread fears of a renewed insurgency were reawakened when Humala's father, a lawyer and former member of the Communist Party of Peru, advocated the release of Abimael Guzman, the founder of the terrorist Shining Path who is widely seen as the country's main public enemy. |
 | | His party has 13 seats in the Congress, and Keiko Fujimori, the former president's daughter, received the highest number of votes of any newly elected member. |
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