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Transplanted Japanese chefs played an important role. Nobu Matsuhisa's Nobu restaurant introduced traditional Japanese recipes with a Peruvian twist, delighting the public and influencing chic kitchens of all types. "You see it in the emphasis on simplicity, purity and quality of product," says owner Drew Nieporent, a top New York restaurateur who also owns TriBeCa Grill, Montrachet and Heartbeat...
...According to the U.N. Drug Control Project, the early effects of Plan Colombia have already raised prices for coca in the region, and - wouldn't you know it - there are already signs of new cultivation under way in Peru. Of course, the U.S. is ready for that, having trained Peruvian navy personnel at a secret base in the Amazon to go after jungle farmers and intercept boats bound for Colombia and Brazil...
...Assume, for a moment, that the plane downed by the Peruvian air force had been carrying 250 kilograms of cocaine - a relatively small load - rather than a family of missionaries. Assume, further, that the pilot had demanded $500,000 to fly the risky mission, and that the plane itself had cost the narco-traffickers another half million. That million-dollar loss in the failed mission still amounted to less than 10 percent of the street value of the shipment. And that's plenty of incentive for the traffickers to keep finding more and more ingenious ways of getting their wares...
...Alberto Fujimori's plummeting public image reached another low as the Peruvian Congress voted to charge the former President with abandonment of office and ban him from holding any other post for an additional 10 years. The Congress has already declared Fujimori morally unfit for the presidency, and the Attorney General's office is mulling criminal charges, which it would file in the Supreme Court. The measures won't have much effect on their intended target, however: Fujimori fled to Japan last November, obtained citizenship and has signaled no intention of returning to Peru...
ARRESTED. VICTOR ALBERTO VENERO-GARIDO, 54, former Peruvian official and the country's second most-wanted fugitive (after ex-intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos), on money-laundering and corruption charges; in Miami. When he attempted to withdraw money from a $15 million account frozen by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Venero was arrested and is now fighting extradition to Peru...