When you graduate from hell to purgatory, you feel fine. But you must always remember which direction is the right way to go, because it's a long way to heaven. About a thousand laws were passed to reform Peru's institutions. They didn't like us, but they respected us. This was the first time that somebody told the Peruvian people they weren't going to have what they'd never really had in the first place.
Education is another outstanding issue.
Free market ideas need to be heard in the classrooms, where the Marxist ideas of the Shining Path are still being taught. We must get into the universities with pamphlets, lectures, and seminars, and into the schools with textbooks. We are already holding seminars with schoolteachers to compare and contrast ideas. It covers the whole spectrum of the Fujimori administration's reforms. Since that first effort, IELM has produced additional books and documents, including a detailed study of Peru's reintegration into the world economy.