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Article: PERU: PRESIDENT ALEJANDRO TOLEDO SHUFFLES CABINET.
- Article from:
- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- July 19, 2002
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Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo has made major changes in his Cabinet, including the key economic and foreign policy posts. The unpopular president, whose approval rating in opinion polls is less than 16%, is experiencing a credibility crisis after failing to keep his campaign promises to create more jobs and improve living conditions for the country's poor majority.
Polls show the public is also dissatisfied with Toledo's economic policies, especially the privatization plans that led to deadly protests in June, and for his indecisiveness.
He also has been unable or unwilling to put to rest claims that he has a daughter whom he refuses to recognize. ...