Weekly Post 6

PERU ― Many do not think an unsung hero would be someone who is a hero. An unsung hero is someone who is unrecognized but does so much. In recent 1990’s to 2000’s, Mr. Alberto Fujimori was the game changer during his term, however to the public he was the man who turned his back on his country.

In the United States, many do not hear about their president turning their backs on them; however, sometimes it is not necessarily them turning their backs, but doing what is best for their country. Which is what happened to ex-president Alberto Fujimori when he was trying to when trying to put his country back together while Alan Garcia, former peruvian president, was hurting it. Under Garcia’s presidency, the media never showed the people waiting in long lines to to get a pound of rice, sometimes there was not enough for everyone. On the other hand, when Alberto Fujimori stepped up in the presidency, that part of the peruvians lives was in for a change. Fujimori made sure all of his people had food;however, the Shining Path had started to go against the government,but the people had taken it the wrong way and raped women also recruiting kids to kill the indians in the villages. The Shining Path developed when the government  transitioned from a military government.

Fujimori knew action needed to be taken and formed an elite to kill the Shining Path because they were trying to gather the minority and some police were involved with them so nobody really ever knew. According to online sources, “official government death squad had kidnapped the ten victims, tortured and murdered them, and then hurriedly buried, exhumed, burned, and reburied the bodies.” Many believe he did this on purpose, but the students of La Cantuta University were out of hand, and Fujimori took the actions necessary of defending his minority.

In the United States, we do not see actions like these of our president defending the minorities. Many crimes have been occurring for example, shootings in schools;however, our president Donald Trump proceeds to take no action. The citizens of the United States simply protest and that is as far as actions occur, but many say that our protests do nothing but waste time. A president is supposed to try and keep everyone on the same levels, but unfortunately we have the upper class, middle class, and the minority. The minority is typically just kicked around and usually screwed over in choices. Fujimori is the reason the minority is still standing in Peru, and Trump is the reason money is flowing, not any changes though.

Source:

http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/pubs/abducted.shtml

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Jenn Soto