Question

This leader withdrew his country from the Court of Human Rights following a dispute with TV station owner Baruch Ivcher. TV crews routinely captured this leader in the north of his country personally directing flood relief during a particularly bad El Niño season in 1997. Under the campaign of “Change ’90,” this (20[1])former engineer (20[1])won a surprise election (20[1])over a future Nobel Prize–winning (*) author. The magazine (10[1])Caretas (10[4])kicked off (10[1])a birther scandal (10[2])by revealing that this leader had not been born in Miraflores. After reorganizing his country’s military, this leader’s government captured (10[1])Abimael Guzman, leader (10[1])of (10[1])the (10[1])Maoist (10[1])terrorist group Shining (10[1])Path. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[2])name this Peruvian president of Japanese heritage. (10[1])■END■ (10[8])

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary