Word: fujimori
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...Alberto Fujimori was alone in his hotel room in Tokyo--just the disgraced Peruvian ex-President and a sad-looking plate of grapes and bananas. No handlers, no translators, no security. He clicked on a tape recorder himself. He hungrily peeled a red grape before popping it into his mouth. He cut a relaxed figure for someone who had just lost his country. It was time for the interview. "Where is your photographer?" he asked, sounding disappointed. What Fujimori cared about most was appearing on the cover of TIME. "For the cover maybe it would be better outside...
Days before, Fujimori had resigned the presidency of Peru by fax. Now the 62-year-old was settling into the homeland of his parents with no plans to leave--but possibly facing corruption charges in Peru. He appears to qualify for citizenship because his parents registered his birth at the Japanese consulate in Lima, and that datum was transferred, somehow, into the family registry in their home village in Japan. Immigration authorities were vague about all this, while diplomats prayed the new Peruvian government would not demand that Japan send Fujimori back to face charges. They don't want...
Would he ever return to Peru on his own? "Maybe sometime," Fujimori said. "Later." For now, he said, he has a "new approach" for fighting corruption and staying involved in Peruvian affairs...
Next stop, Peru. Its President, ALBERTO FUJIMORI, resigned by sending a Dear Juan letter from Tokyo to Lima. He said it had "nothing to do with" a corruption scandal, but the next day an outraged Peruvian Congress fired him, citing "moral incapacity"--a first for that country. Two vice presidents also submitted resignations. The president of the Congress is now interim President...
...there?s no clear line of succession before then. The ruling party wants second vice president Ricardo Marquez to take the job, but the congressional opposition wants the speaker of the legislature, Valentin Paniagua, to take over. Opposition legislators have questioned the credentials of Marquez, a close ally of Fujimori, and his path to the presidency remains constitutionally murky. First in line would be the first vice president, Francisco Tudela, who resigned last month following Montesinos?s return to Peru from a failed bid for asylum in Panama. But the legislature has not yet accepted Tudela?s resignation. Such discord...