The Washington Post, February 20th, 1998
Amid the stench of stagnant flood water, President Alberto Fujimori, flanked in the sweltering night by three security men packing pistols and flashlights, pushed his way through a mass of humanity toward the overflowing riverbank. Clad in blue jeans and Caterpillar work boots, he leaped onto a mound of mud, took a moment to assess the situation, then belted out orders to men fixing broken dikes. "No, not that way!" Fujimori yelled over the din of a roaring river in what was, until recently, a desert city on Peru's arid central coast. But that was before the arrival of the weather phenomenon k...
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