Article: The masochist; Peru's president.(More gaffes from Peru's accident-prone president)

How not to reshuffle a cabinet

IF SHOOTING oneself in the foot were an Olympic sport, Alejandro Toledo would win the gold medal. As he began his fifth and final year as Peru's president, Mr Toledo had been enjoying a welcome wavelet of adulation. Thanks mainly to a strong economy, his approval rating in some opinion polls had risen to 20%--modest enough, but more than double the figure for much of the past 18 months. Pundits expected the president's popularity to carry on rising in the run-up to an election next April. All Mr Toledo had to do was nothing.

That proved too much for him. On August 11th, he named as foreign minister Fernando Olivera, a close ...

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