n the three years between the announcement of Vargas Llosa's candidacy and the 1990 election. By allying himself with established parties, Vargas Llosa had access to their established organization. Unfortunately, Vargas Llosa comments, his "calculations were quite wrong."
One of Vargas Llosa's primary concerns was Peru's economic crisis. Vargas Llosa writes that
The Peru of my childhood was a poor and backward country: in the last decades, mainly since the beginning of Velasco's dictatorship and in particular during Alan Garcfa's presidency, it had become poorer still and in many regions wretchedly poverty-stricken, a country
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