Freedom of the press in Peru the press in Peru when, a Japanese descended president, Alberto Fujimori took power after the 1992 coup d’état. Fujimori put private property and market in the center of the country’s development. The constitution turned from a democracy into an authoritarian regime in 1992. It had an impact mainly on newspapers as troops occupied the newspaper buildings forcing journalists to showed them the work before publishing it. A short period later, Fujimori requested for the troops to leave the buildings and then visited "El Comercio" to apologize for their actions in order to portray their authoritative regime as a dictatorship, while
Alberto Fujimori the 2006 presidential elections, but in February 2004, the Constitutional Court dismissed this possibility, because the ex-president was specifically barred by Congress from holding any office for ten years. Fujimori saw the decision as unconstitutional, as did his supporters such as ex-congressmembers Luz Salgado, Marta Chávez and Fernán Altuve, who argued it was a "political" maneuver and that the only body with the authority to determine the matter was the Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (JNE). Valentín Paniagua disagreed, suggesting that the Constitutional Court finding was binding and that "no further debate is possible". Fujimori's "Sí Cumple" (roughly translated, "He Keeps