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 first term in office, APRA and Vargas Llosa's party, the FREDEMO, remained in control of both chambers of Congress, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, hampering the enactment of economic reform. Fujimori also had difficulty combatting the Maoist Shining Path () guerrilla organization due largely to what he perceived as intransigence and obstructionism in Congress. By March 1992, Congress met with the approval of only 17% of the electorate, according to one poll; the president's approval rate stood at 42%, in the same poll. In response to the political deadlock, Fujimori, with the support of the military, on 5