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When a president goes knocking on the doors of his citizens, it's usually a campaign stunt. But not in Peru. President Alberto Fujimori on Thursday raced around Lima with an escort of special forces troops, leading a house-to-house search for his disgraced former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos had earlier this week flown home following a failed bid for political asylum in Panama. The release last month of a videotape showing him bribing an opposition legislator to support President Fujimori had precipitated a political crisis that forced the strongman president to call new elections early next year...
...year old church of Santa Ana in Ayacucho, Peru suffered an estimated $300,000 in damage in a 1997 fire. It has long been the cultural lynchpin of the community, which was torn by a 12-year civil war between the Peruvian government and the Shining Path rebel forces...
Power Play in Peru...
...your report on political turmoil in Peru [WORLD, Oct. 2]: How simple it is for people, especially those sitting in comfortable offices in the U.S. or Europe, to accuse Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori of running a "brutal and authoritarian government." How easily Fujimori's critics forget the brutal years of 1987-92, when thousands of innocent people died at the hands of the guerrillas. Fortunately most Peruvians recognize what Fujimori has achieved. That is the reason he was elected for a third term. BERNARDO ALVAREZ Lima...
...There's still a strong possibility of a coup, even of a race between Montesinos loyalists and opponents within the armed forces to make a grab for power. Right now it's hard to determine exactly who holds power in Peru...