Word: peru
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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...
...President's most vivid rebuff yet of Tupac Amaru's demand. And given the guerrillas' own intransigence, it illustrated just how long Peru's hostage crisis could drag on. Since the well-being of the hostages keeps Fujimori from using his iron fist to rescue them, he decided last week to rely on his own steely resolve, settling into a tense staring match with Tupac Amaru...
...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...
...Peruvian media seems to agree with him. Television stations no longer interrupt afternoon soap operas for live broadcasts of garbage pickups and food deliveries at the residence. But the President's public return has so far changed nothing at the home of Japan's ambassador to Peru, where rebels still hold 74 hostages...
...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...