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...years people have accused Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori of running a brutal and authoritarian government right out of a dictator's textbook. But last week Fujimori's regime morphed from a monolith into a weird, militarized soap opera, and it seemed no one, perhaps not even Fujimori, understood how the plot was unfolding. Was the President still running the show? Was he resigning, as he suddenly promised? Would he, as he declared, really clean up the thuggish security apparatus that had done so much to blacken his administration's name? Would the nation's powerful military back him or revolt...
Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori recently declared that new presidential elections would be held in his country, and that he would not be a candidate. This announcement comes only seven weeks into Fujimori's landmark third term as president, after he was elected in May and inaugurated this July. Although he did not say how soon the new elections would be held, Fujimori's decision to step down came when a videotape surfaced showing the Chief of Peru's Secret Service bribing a Peruvian lawmaker in attempts to get him to ally with Fujimori's political party...
...wasn?t an attack of conscience that prompted Peru's President Alberto Fujimori to step down; it was the very armed forces that had guaranteed his power. The questions that may hold Peru?s fate, however, is why the generals made it clear to Fujimori that he had to go, and what their next move might be. Lima was awash Monday in rumors of coups and conspiracies, and it?s not hard to see why: New of the planned resignation of a strongman who had defied not only his own countrymen but also his most powerful backers in Washington...
...Wang and Alberto Fassinotti '00 organized the trip for their blockmates because the first time Wang climbed the mountain he had not gotten a picture. This time he did indeed snap a shot...
Peru's controversial election process looks set to provoke new street protests in Lima - and a painful decision in Washington. Opposition candidate Alejandro Toledo withdrew late Thursday from the May 28 presidential runoff election against President Alberto Fujimori, after Fujimori's government refused to comply with a call by election monitors to postpone the poll. The monitors of the Organization of American States, with Washington's backing, had expressed grave reservations over irregularities in the first-round ballot - won by Fujimori, but without a sufficient majority to avoid a runoff - and urged postponement in order to resolve problems including candidates...