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By Catherine Conaghan with comments by Carlos Basombrio Iglesias

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This paper represents part of the work done by Catherine Conaghan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, when she was a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center during the winter months of 1995. While at the Center, Conaghan was researching a book focusing on the political changes in Peru in the wake of President Fujimori's autogolpe ofApril 1992. Carlos Basombrio, who has written the commentary, was a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow during the 1994-95 academic year, and has since returned to the Instituto de Defensa Legal in Lima, Peru. Both Conaghan and Basombrio participated in a March 16, 1995, seminar at the Center on "Peru's Upcoming Elections: Prospects for Democratization." They were joined at the time by George Washington University Professor of Political Science Cynthia McClintock, and Peruvian Ambassador to the United States Ricardo V. Luna.

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