Some political facts Thinking of Peru, many people will think about terrorist movements likeTupac Amaru or Sendero Luminoso. They also might think of a traditional Latin-American country, ruled by police and military and with a president who is just a strawman of the army-generals. A country with widespread corruption. A country where few people are extremely rich and many people extremely poor. In 1992 the main part of Sendero Luminoso, a Marxist terrorist group trying to eliminate Peru's fragile democracy, was minimised with the arrestment of its leader Guzmán. After that, little was heard from Sendero. The same goes for Tupac Amaru. In a last attempt to regain some influence, they captured the Japanese embassy in December 1996. Peruvian police ended the incident, and today there is not much left of Tupac Amaru. In 2000, Peru had a very turbulent year. The non-democratic president Fujimori was set aside by the parliament and an order was issued to arrest the former head of the secret police, Montesinos. Many people were afraid the military would take over the country, but this didn't happen, thanks to the new parliament which fired the most dangerous generals. At this moment Peru has again a fully democratic parliament. And despite all probems of the last years it is one of Latin-America's faster growing economies. Like most countries in Latin America, it has a social-democrat government. Of course it is not rich, of course people suffer from neo-liberal shock-therapy, but at least there is the will to change. Due to strong economic reforms, the inflation has dropped and foreign investments have increased.