Word: vladimiro
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Peru's immediate future remains murky, and there's still a strong possibility of a coup within the next 48 hours. Fired intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos is now reportedly holed up in the well-fortified headquarters of the feared SIN intelligence service, guarded by 800 commandos. President Fujimori now seems to be furiously backpedaling from his announcement disbanding the SIN and ordering early elections because he's been unable to win the support of the military, and that may have created a power vacuum...
...only his own countrymen but also his most powerful backers in Washington and the wider Latin American community to steal an election just four months ago came as a bombshell - particularly since the apparent catalyst was the release on national TV of videotape showing Fujimori's shadowy intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, apparently in the act of bribing an opposition legislator into supporting the president. After all, scandalous as the revelation may have been, dirty tricks by the Fujimori regime are hardly news, and their exposure doesn?t quite explain the sudden change of heart on the part...