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Alejandro Toledo
Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique (born 28 March 1945) is a Peruvian politician and economist. He was President of Peru from 2001 to 2006. He was elected in 2001 defeating former President Alan Garcia. Toledo came to international prominence after leading the opposition against President Alberto Fujimori, who held the presidency from 1990 to 2000.
After his presidential term, Toledo left Peru and went to the USA where he was a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University during the 2006-2008 academic years. In 2007-2008 he was a Payne Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a CDDRL Visiting Scholar. [*] Simultaneously, Dr. Toledo founded and continues to serve as the President of the Global Center for Development and Democracy, which is based in Latin America, the United States, and the European Union. Dr. Toledo is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., and also a
Toledo is one of sixteen children of a family of indigenous campesinos of Quechua heritage in the town of Cabana, Pallasca Province, Ancash Department. He grew up in Chimbote, a city on Peru's northern coast. His father was a bricklayer and his mother was a fishmonger. As a child, he worked shining shoes.
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Global Center for Development and Democracy
in Education (in 1993)
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peacecorpsonline.org
Global Center for Development and Democracy
peacecorpsonline.org
peacecorpsonline.org
op-ed piece on Peru and Honduras
peacecorpsonline.org
www.AlejandroToledo.org
An alternative view of Toledo career showing involvement in NWO
Extended bio and presidential tenure, by CIDOB Foundation
Alejandro Toledo: President of Peru
Peace Corps: Alejandro Toledo
Alejandro Toledo's commencement speech at Stanford
Presentation by Alejandro Toledo about Economic Growth and Poverty Eradication - Feb 2007
"From president of Peru to just Palo Alto guy" by Tyler Bridges in San Francisco Chronicle February 11, 2007
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