Although back in 2001 many people thought we were insane to set the goal of doubling our exports by the end of our administration, we were able to reach it a year before our promise, ... We hope the next government will set a similar goal, even if it sounds crazy, because we can do it.

I don't negotiate with gangsters. I call on Fujimori to step down tomorrow.

clear the present government was administering the electoral process.

In our fight to recover democracy in Peru, we will not put all our eggs in the basket of the Organization of American States.

I'm very sorry that President Alberto Fujimori and the National Election Board have decided to push the country to a crisis with unforeseen consequences.

It's not only a legal matter, it's also a moral and ethical matter that the country needs to clear up, ... What we're trying to do, while giving him all the rights to due process, is to finally bring him to justice.

They are dressing up the results without listening to the will of the people, ... I want them to know if they attempt to twist the will of the people that I will be the first to go to the streets at the front of the line, to defend the rights of the nation.

This is an enormous responsibility: the responsibility to maintain peace and international security and resolve controversies that may arise in the world,

poverty and exclusion conspire against peace, security and democracy.

Dictators do not leave power voluntarily; that was the case in Indonesia with Suharto, that was the case with Marcos in the Philippines, that was the case with Pinochet in Chile, and we need to be prepared to confirm the challenge.