Word: tampering
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...should make it clear that it will impose economic sanctions on Peru if Fujimori continues to tamper with election results. These would not be ineffectual threats. The economic situation in Peru is delicate. Although Fujimori was able to reduce national hyperinflation in 1990 to the current 3.7 percent, it came at the price of huge unemployment--over half the nation's working-age population lacks a steady job. Toledo, a shoe shiner who later trained as an economist at Harvard, has been able to gain popular support by focusing on the nation's impoverished masses. Such sanctions would seriously undercut...