The leader, Gen. Felix Barriaux John Bedford Lloydd), is both ruthless and insecure, a man who is easily distracted from the nation's economic woes and guerrillas' threats on his life by his problems in the bedroom.
But he said they must take responsibility for dealing with the guerrilla threat.
Because of the guerrilla threat, he retreated in 1989 to an office in Barranquilla, about 125 miles away.
"There is nothing to justify the construction of military bases in Roraima, because no concrete guerrilla threat exists there".
But, he was increasingly criticized for governing autocratically, with emasculated courts and congress, long after the guerrilla threat had subsided.
What is known is that Sendero has drug money.Mr Toledo has many enemies who are keen to exaggerate the guerrilla threat.
Instead, he sought to redeem his reputation by portraying himself as a statesman concerned with rescuing the country from a guerrilla threat that had reached "the doors of the National Palace," and he argued that tons of needed food reached the Ixil villages.
Further alarming to Washington, an assessment by U.S. Special Forces advisors dispatched to Guatemala (straight from the American invasion of Southeast Asia) concluded that the Guatemalan military was "weak, disorganized and unprepared to meet the guerrilla threat".
It was left to his successor, Alberto Fujimori, once an obscure professor of agronomy, to tame the Shining Path guerrilla threat and guide the country back to some measure of fiscal responsibility.
"The combination of guerrilla threats with the development of a political crisis of unpredictable consequences that damages the management and the correction of serious fiscal problems has reverberated very negatively in debt evaluations and the perceptions of Colombia abroad," said Armando Montenegro, president of the National Association of Financial Institutions.
