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 perceived as a term of affection. With his election victory, he became just the second person of East Asian descent to become head of government of a Latin American nation, after Fulgencio Batista of Cuba and the third of East Asian descent to govern a South American state, after Arthur Chung of Guyana and Henk Chin A Sen of Suriname (each of whom had served as head of state, rather than head of government). During his first term in office, Fujimori enacted wide-ranging neoliberal reforms, known as Fujishock. During the presidency of Alan García, the economy had entered a period