Alejandro Toledo
Alejandro Toledo
Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manriqueis a Peruvian politician who was president of Peru, from 2001 to 2006. He was elected in April 2001, defeating former President Alan García. Toledo came to international prominence after leading the opposition against President Alberto Fujimori, who held the presidency from 1990 to 2000...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 March 1946
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We started and are about to finish negotiating free trade agreements
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We're aware that voting is obligatory. Let's see if they can collect fines from 5 million Peruvians.
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The only remaining recourse is to forward all the charges against Fujimori to an international tribunal.
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It doesn't make sense that Wall Street applauds us because we do things well at the macro level. The objective is that that healthy economic growth is reflected in the reduction of extreme poverty,
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I think that was the right thing to do. If we would have participated, we would have participated in a fraudulent process.
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The armed forces and the police should be subordinated to the authority elected by the popular sovereignty.
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We are now beginning to see the fruits of the sacrifice it has taken to maintain discipline and achieve sustained economic growth,
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We need to accelerate the process. That's why we're here,
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Tonight Peruvians celebrate the triumph of democracy, ... I swear, brothers and sisters, I will never let you down.
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Dictators do not leave power voluntarily; that was the case in Indonesia with Suharto, that was the case with Marcos in the Philippines, that was the case with Pinochet in Chile, and we need to be prepared to confirm the challenge.
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We want to expand the bases of support for a free trade agreement with the United States, and therefore we have to talk with the Democrats,
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They are dressing up the results without listening to the will of the people, ... I want them to know if they attempt to twist the will of the people that I will be the first to go to the streets at the front of the line, to defend the rights of the nation.
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This is an enormous responsibility: the responsibility to maintain peace and international security and resolve controversies that may arise in the world,
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It's not only a legal matter, it's also a moral and ethical matter that the country needs to clear up, ... What we're trying to do, while giving him all the rights to due process, is to finally bring him to justice.