Posted on 11/06/2005 10:45:58 PM PST by HAL9000
ALARM - former Peruvian president Fujimori stopped in Chile
SANTIAGO - former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, shown to have financed several assassinations and to have devoted itself to offences of corruption, was stopped Monday morning in Santiago of Chile where it had arrived a few hours earlier, announced in Lima the Peruvian minister Foreign Affairs, Oscar Maúrtua.
Fujimori arrested in Chile: Peru minister
By Fiona Ortiz and Robin Emmott 9 minutes ago
Peru's disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori, wanted there on human rights abuse and corruption charges, was arrested during a surprise visit to Chile, Peru's foreign minister said late on Sunday.
Fujimori, who led Peru from 1990 to 2000, has been a fugitive in his ancestral homeland Japan since he fled there in November 2000, when a corruption scandal toppled his government. He flew from Japan to Chile on Sunday to try to relaunch his political career and run for president next year.
Peruvian Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua told reporters in Lima that Fujimori had been arrested by Chilean police and moved from his hotel. It was unclear where he had been taken.
"The Chilean courts have just issued an arrest warrant for Alberto Fujimori following a request by Peru ... He's been arrested," Maurtua told reporters in a late night briefing.
Chilean police were not immediately available for comment.
"It is my aim to temporarily remain in Chile as part of my efforts to return to Peru and keep my promise to an important part of the Peruvian people who have called on me to be a candidate in the 2006 elections," Fujimori, 67, said in a statement released earlier in Peru and Chile.
Laying the basis for an insanity defense?
So he finally left Japan then...
Still, many Peruvians remember Fujimori in a good light, for crushing left-wing rebels, controlling hyperinflation and bringing electricity and schools to remote villages.
Hundreds of his supporters gathered in central Lima on Sunday, many wearing his political color, orange, waving balloons and blowing whistles in a planned meeting to launch the alliance of three political groups that support his election campaign.
Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the issue
The world's leftists will never forgive Fujimori for decimating the Shining Path terrorists who plagued Peru for the longest time.
True, he is hated in academia.
that says it all
The plan was brilliantly executed and the terrorists killed.
Better to have a hero like Jimmy Carter who failed utterly to free the hostages in Iran.
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