The recent environmental disaster off the Peruvian coast caused by the spill of some 12,000 barrels of oil takes the environmental management debate beyond a simple regulatory issue.

The pragmatic liberalism with which Fujimori decided and settled his dispensation, led him to pierce and definitively destroy a system that -although not perfect- still made some sense. In this way, he was able to make a country to his own specifications, which needed to be led by an autocratic president.