By SIMON ROMERO
Published: August 27, 2010
PRESIDENT ALAN GARCÍA is certainly used to being unpopular.
During his first term as president about 20 years ago, when Peru was suffering from terrorist attacks by a Maoist insurgency, he was widely blamed for the hyperinflation that crippled the nation’s economy.
Now in what might be considered his comeback term, a chance to rehabilitate his place in history, the insurgency is a shadow of its former self, the economy is booming — and he is still battling low approval ratings and heated criticism from his constituents.
So perhaps it is not surprising that Mr. García has learned to respond to Bronx cheers with panache.
“We’re sort of still the kind of country that expects the son of the sun, the Inca, to do acts of magic,” he said in a interview this month. “I have tried it, but it is difficult, almost impossible.”
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