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Article: PERU: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO TOLEDO UNDER GROWING PRESSURE TO COME THROUGH ON CAMPAIGN PROMISES.
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- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- September 21, 2001
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Pressure is increasing on Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo to deliver on promises to produce jobs, increase wages, and improve basic services for Peru's poor. But Toledo must also listen to the demands of the business community, which is leery of any change to the neoliberal economic policies in place for the past decade.
Toledo's support has slipped noticeably since he took office July 28. In a poll of Lima residents by Apoyo Opinion y Mercado published Sept. 17, 50% of respondents said they approved of the job Toledo is doing, while 24% said they did not, and 26% did not give an opinion. In a similar poll published Aug. 10 by Datum Internacional, 75% of ...