Word: lima
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...guerrillas in 1980. For 22 weeks, about 15 members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, which is known to have drawn inspiration from the Cuban Revolution, have released hundreds of hostages, but continue to hold 72 of the more prominent officials at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima. It is not clear how Fujimori?s latest move will be received by the rebels, who have insisted all long that their one non-negotiable demand is the release of 400 of their jailed comrades, a condition that Fujimori has categorically opposed...
...LIMA, Peru: Peru's seven-week hostage crisis moved closer to resolution after a three-hour meeting between mediators and Tupac Amaru rebels to set the agenda for negotiations with government representatives. Emerging from the Japanese ambassador's residence early Thursday afternoon, Roman Catholic Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani said that "we are headed toward finding the light of a peaceful solution." Cipriani did not say whether a definite date for talks had been set, but noted that efforts to free the 72 remaining hostages had "advanced positively." President Alberto Fujimori had welcomed the meeting, saying that it "will help...
...LIMA, Peru: The relentless taunting of rebels by Peruvian police continues to edge toward conflagration. Five times Monday, as Peruvian war marches blared from speakers mounted high near the compound walls, black-bereted commandos staged elaborate maneuvers underneath. Armored personnel carried rolled by, and as always, all gun barrels were trained ominously on the residence. Japan's permission is needed for any attack on the compound. But Tokyo worries where the steadily intensifying displays will lead. Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto had asked the Peruvian government "not to go too far. Not thinking of the hostages' mental...
...LIMA, Peru: The hostage crisis in Peru is once again at an impasse. President Alberto Fujimori, who had allowed that freedom for jailed Tupac Amaru rebels could at least be discussed, retreated Wednesday to his original hard stance, saying: "We are not going to allow (government negotiator Domingo) Palermo to go to the conversation table and sit down if they haven't accepted that there won't be any freeing of prisoners." Fujimori said other issues, including improved prison conditions for the jailed rebels and safe passage and possible pardons for the hostage-takers, could be raised. Red Cross representative...
...course they are going to come out and wave." Like Marcial Surco in San Juan de Amancaes: he came out to wave last week, but volunteered in front of Fujimori that he hasn't had steady work in almost a year. Or Jorge Alvarado, 24, a semiemployed accountant in Lima's lower-middle-class Pueblo Libre neighborhood. "I don't agree with Nestor Cerpa taking hostages," he said. "But the embarrassing thing about this crisis is that Cerpa has become a sort of interlocutor between Fujimori and our economic problems. Maybe Fuji will listen to us a little more after...