Perhaps the most perverse side-effect of the utter discredit into which the regime of Alberto Fujimori, Peru's former president, has now sunk is that it has served to rehabilitate his predecessor, Alan Garcia. On January 27th Mr Garcia returned home, after almost nine years as an exile, to launch his campaign for the presidential election due on April 8th. The sight of him stepping on to the tarmac at Lima's airport, arms raised in salute to cheering supporters, was a sign that democracy had returned—but it sent chills through many Peruvians.
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