Between 1996 and 1998, some 300,000 women were sterilised in Peru. All came from the poorest backgrounds, most from the Andean and Amazonian areas where Spanish is still not widely spoken. Some days before the election, vice-presidential candidate Rafael Rey declared the women had not been sterilised "against their will", but "without their consent". This came hot on the heels of Keiko Fujimori's assertion during the presidential debate that she, "as a mother", understood the plight of the women that had been sterilised, while defending the man who as health minister had carried out her father's policies.
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