Original sentence: To combat the economic crisis that Venezuela had been going through since the early 1980s, President Carlos Andrés Pérez proposed to implement free-market "reforms" in his second presidential term (1989–1993), following the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Edited sentence: To combat the economic crisis that Venezuela had been going through since the early 1980s, President Carlos Andrés Pérez proposed to implement free-market reforms in his second presidential term (1989–1993), following the recommendations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)