Word: lima
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wearing blue jeans and a contemptuous look, Peru's President Alberto Fujimori swaggers into the dank cellblock of the Castro Castro Prison, a squalid penitentiary on Lima's outskirts that houses scores of captured rebels from the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). Seeing Fujimori, the Tupac prisoners spring angrily from the concrete beds inside their overcrowded cells. Fists raised, they hurl deafening Marxist choruses: "Fujimori, dictator, the people will defeat...
...taking such a hit in the polls? Since last January his approval ratings have dropped from the high 70s to the low 40s. Voter preference polls for the election in the year 2000 are worse: in the most recent national survey, Fujimori placed second, with only 26%, behind Lima Mayor Alberto Andrade. "I don't govern by popularity polls," Fujimori retorts...
...LIMA, Peru: Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will allow government negotiators to discuss the Tupac Amaru rebel demand of freedom for their jailed comrades, but the conversation will be somewhat limited. While negotiators can talk about the topic with rebel representatives, Peru's government "cannot approve such (a) liberation," Fujimori said in an interview with Japanese television. Fujimori's comments mark the first time he has relaxed his unbending opposition to releasing the rebel prisoners in exchange for the 73 hostages, including Fujimori's brother and the Peruvian foreign minister, who have been held for a month by the Marxist Tupac...
...LIMA: Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori is no longer the invisible man in the country's three-week old hostage crisis. After keeping a low profile for the past few weeks, Fujimori Tuesday toured a poor Lima neighborhood and visited a maximum security prison where a number of Tupac Amaru rebels are held. The appearances are designed to show that in spite of the crisis, the business of state goes on. Fujimori is preparing for an important visit next week from Ecuador's president, Abdala Bucaram. The two countries have long been involved in a bitter border war and the visit...
...LIMA, Peru: Chief negotiator Domingo Palermo has cut off negotiations with Tupac Amaru rebels holed up in the Japanese ambassador's residence, saying he wants a "clear sign" from the captors before he will meet with them again, according to Lima's El Comercio. Has Fujimori's government turned to the hard line? "We're going to leave them in there until they get bored," a high government official told The Associated Press. Palermo has met directly with the rebels only once, a December 28 move that freed 20 hostages. But since the release of seven more last Wednesday...