What Peru Needs to Achieve Stability?

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Mike Downey: Peru was a success story until fairly recently. He says the country needs to build some serious political parties, and that's much easier said than done. Fucimorismo is now the strongest political current in the country, he says. The people who want a new constitution wanted in order to seize power,downey writes.

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