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 to 17.7% of the votes in the second round, invalid votes jumped from 8.1% of the total votes cast in the first round to 31.1% of total votes in the second round. The large percentage of invalid votes in this election suggests that many Peruvians took Toledo's advice and spoiled their ballots. Although Fujimori won the runoff with only a bare majority, rumors of irregularities led most of the international community to shun his third swearing-in on 28 July. For the next seven weeks, there were daily demonstrations in front of the presidential palace. As a conciliatory gesture, Fujimori appointed