Máximo San Román Máximo San Román Máximo San Román Cáceres is a Peruvian mechanical engineer, businessman and former politician. He was President of Peru between 1992 and 1993, a term that was marked by the authoritarian government of Alberto Fujimori. Considered the legal Head of State during Fujimori's ruling by decree of his self-coup, he did not hold real power. San Román entered politics in 1990 as the first running mate of Alberto Fujimori in the Change 90 presidential ticket. He was elected First Vice President and Senator for the 1990-1995 term.. He was sworn as President of the Senate due to the
Judiciary reform in Peru under Alberto Fujimori deeply affected by terrorism and the Judiciary branch of the country was enveloped with corruption and bureaucracy. By the elections of 1990 it was obvious that fighting terrorism with the state of that institution was going to be difficult because of the sluggish pace of the institution and also the low rate of convictions of those accused of terrorism; under a 10% conviction rate. For this reason during his inaugural speech Fujimori promised to reform the Judiciary. During the first two years of his administration there were few changes to the Judiciary. This was a result of the opposition controlling