Word: fujimori
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...Lima only needed to peek over the embassy's garden wall, where more than 600 guests, largely government officials, foreign diplomats and corporate executives, were preparing to make a run at the sushi buffet and raise their pisco sours to toast Aoki's hospitality. Even Peru's President Alberto Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, was expected. His mother Rosa, brother Pedro and sister Juana were already there...
...terrorist hostage taking. The prominence of the prisoners, along with the fact that the siege was technically taking place on the soil of a foreign embassy, turned what might have been simply a debilitating domestic emergency in Peru into an international scandal. It dealt a staggering blow to Fujimori, who has staked much of his political fortune on stamping out homegrown terrorism. At the same time, it lent worldwide recognition to a group of insurgents that Fujimori only two years ago dismissed as a spent force. With some 340 hostages still in rebel hands by week's end, Fujimori faced...
...dilemma no head of state could envy, and it took Fujimori's security forces completely by surprise. In recent months they had become convinced that they had won the war on terrorism that Peru had been fighting for more than 15 years. Forty minutes after the initial attack, the police withdrew from the compound and began shouting at the guerrillas. The guerrillas yelled back the suggestion that the security squads go find themselves a megaphone. When police lobbed tear gas into the compound, the rebels simply pulled on their gas masks while the hostages sputtered and choked...
Three hours after the seizure, communications were established and the insurgents gradually began releasing some 300 women and elderly people (including Fujimori's mother and sister). In phone calls to local television and radio stations, the rebels then issued a list of demands. Among them: safe passage to a haven in the Amazon jungle and release of about 450 comrades being held in various jails, where conditions are so harsh that prisoners are said to be trapping rats to feed themselves...
Even if the appeal succeeds, however, it will probably result at best in reducing her term to 20 years. Berenson's only chance of a shorter sentence is clemency from President Alberto Fujimori, and the prospect is considered highly unlikely...