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"Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before"

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Victory talk, with a lawyerly escape hatch. Fujimori’s line is engineered to do two things at once: declare the war on terror essentially won and preempt the political damage of whatever “isolated case” has just surfaced. The phrasing “showing to the world” isn’t incidental; it recruits an international audience as a jury, implying Peru has graduated from crisis state to model nation. “Feasible” is the technocrat’s word for what is really a moral and coercive project: not just defeating insurgents, but proving the state’s capacity to do it.

The subtext is reputational triage. By framing violence as a before-and-after story - terrorism “as it was before” versus today’s supposedly residual blip - he converts ongoing insecurity into a rounding error. “Doesn’t mean that terrorism is alive” is a rhetorical resuscitation attempt: he’s trying to kill the narrative even if the facts won’t cooperate. It’s also a warning to critics: don’t use this incident to reopen the ledger.

Context matters because Fujimori’s counterinsurgency against Shining Path and MRTA was paired with an authoritarian consolidation: emergency powers, militarization, intelligence services, and widespread human-rights abuses that later defined his legacy as much as the tactical successes. The sentence performs the state’s preferred memory: order restored, anomalies dismissed, legitimacy secured. It works because it offers closure - a powerful commodity in a traumatized country - while quietly insisting that accountability, like terrorism, belongs to the past.

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Fujimori, Alberto. (2026, January 15). Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/now-we-are-showing-to-the-world-that-this-39583/

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Fujimori, Alberto. "Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/now-we-are-showing-to-the-world-that-this-39583/.

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"Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/now-we-are-showing-to-the-world-that-this-39583/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Alberto Fujimori (born July 28, 1938) is a Statesman from Peru.

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