<P> On August 28, 2003, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR), which had been charged with studying the roots of the violence of the 1980--2000 period, presented its formal report to the President . </P> <P> President Toledo was forced to make a number of cabinet changes, mostly in response to personal scandals . Toledo's governing coalition had a minority of seats in Congress and had to negotiate on an ad hoc basis with other parties to form majorities on legislative proposals . Toledo's popularity in the polls suffered throughout the last years of his regime, due in part to family scandals and in part to dissatisfaction among workers with their share of benefits from Peru's macroeconomic success . After strikes by teachers and agricultural producers led to nationwide road blockages in May 2003, Toledo declared a state of emergency that suspended some civil liberties and gave the military power to enforce order in 12 regions . The state of emergency was later reduced to only the few areas where the Shining Path was operating . </P> <P> On July 28, 2006 former president Alan García became the current President of Peru . He won the 2006 elections after winning in a runoff against Ollanta Humala . </P> <P> In May 2008, President García was a signatory to The UNASUR Constitutive Treaty of the Union of South American Nations . Peru has ratified the treaty . </P>

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