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However, continuing economic problems undermined the
popularity of the ID, and opposition parties gained control of
Congress in 1990. In 1992, Sixto Duran Ballen won in his third
run for the presidency. His tough macroeconomic adjustment
measures were unpopular, but he succeeded in pushing a limited
number of modernization initiatives through Congress. |
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Duran Ballen's vice president, Alberto Dahik,
was the architect of the administration's economic
policies,but in 1995, Dahik fled the country to avoid prosecution on
corruption charges following a heated political battle with
the opposition. A war with Peru (named the Cenepa War, after a river located in the
area) erupted in January-February 1995 in a small, remote
region where the boundary prescribed by the 1942 Rio Protocol
was in dispute. |
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 Abdala Bucaram, from the PRE, won the presidency in 1996 on
a platform that promised populist economic and social reforms
and the breaking of what Bucaram referred to as the power of
the nation's oligarchy. During his short term of office, Bucaram's administration drew criticism for corruption.
Bucaram was deposed by the Congress in February 1997 on
grounds of alleged mental incompetence. |
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