Word: peru
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...ability to choose what’s best for them. In most cases, undergraduates deeper into their Harvard education can make a more sensible decision on the language they will focus upon, rather than making a hasty decision freshman year (consider the aspiring doctor with a summer internship in Peru, or the economist with a sudden epiphany to embrace the classics...
...Peru's ex-President gets six-year sentence...
...into the presentation of witnesses and evidence, Fujimori was given the chance to speak, asked by the judge to enter his plea of guilt or innocence. After serenely requesting a bit of extra time, Fujimori launched into an outraged howl, screaming at the surprised courtroom that he had saved Peru and rejected out of hand the charges. "I totally reject the charges. I am innocent. I do not accept this accusation," he bellowed, before taking his seat...
...charges involve the ex-security chief Montesinos, who is the alleged creator of the death squad. After Fujimori went into exile in 2000, Montesinos fled to Venezuela, which allowed him to be extradited to Peru in 2001. Fujimori claims that his relationship with Montesinos was fully within accepted government bureaucratic norms and practice. However, during one of his own trials, Montesinos said that all of his actions were predicated on orders from Fujimori. Montesinos has already been sentenced in 25 other cases...
With the arrest of his closest associates, Fujimori fled to Japan, his ancestral homeland, in November 2000 and was granted citizenship there. Peru was unable to extradite him from Japan. But then Fujimori did the unexpected and secretly flew to Chile, Peru's southern neighbor, in October 2005. The idea was to return to Peru from Chile to possibly run in the 2006 elections, but those plans were foiled by Chilean police, who promptly arrested him. Fujimori did come home, but under guard. The Chilean Supreme Court approved his extradition on seven counts in September...