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 based on traditional methods of organisation and resistance: strikes and street demonstrations. Some scholars claim that Fujimori's government became a "dictatorship" after the auto-coup, permeated by a network of corruption organized by his associate Montesinos, who now faces dozens of charges that range from embezzlement to drug trafficking to murder (Montesinos is currently on trial in Lima). Fujimori's style of government has also been described as "populist authoritarianism". Numerous governments and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, have welcomed the extradition of Fujimori to face human rights charges. As early as 1991, Fujimori had himself vocally denounced what he