Toledo reaches the palace, at last
If he is to rebuild democracy and revive the economy, the new president will need to form a credible government
SAME man, same place, but what a difference a year can make. In April last year Alejandro Toledo stood on the balcony of the Sheraton Hotel in the centre of Lima, with a red bandanna round his head, and yelled to a seething crowd of supporters that President Alberto Fujimori had just stolen an election victory from him. Mounted on the shoulders of pro- democracy protesters, Mr Toledo then led a march on the presidential palace, only to be turned back by a wall of tear-gas.
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