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...sell-off of state enterprises turned violent when police fired teargas into a crowd of students. Criminal gangs took advantage of the unrest that followed to loot shops and burn cars. Hospital sources said three people died from gunshot wounds and another 18 were injured. PERU Montesinos Nabbed Vladimiro Montesinos, ex-President Alberto Fujimori's intelligence boss, is now behind bars after an eight-month manhunt. He is being questioned on bribery, money laundering and murder charges. Venezuelan cops nabbed Montesinos in Caracas, a step ahead of Peruvian agents, who had been alerted to the hideout...
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...
...Fujimori has resigned. The president, on an unscheduled visit to his ancestral homeland, Japan, announced his retirement to preempt congressional moves to oust him. But that may have only deepened the political crisis triggered two months ago by the release of videos showing Fujimori's top aide, intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing a member of congress. Fujimori has indicated he has no immediate plans to return to Peru from Japan - as the son of Japanese immigrants to Latin America, he's entitled to live in Japan and wouldn't need to be granted asylum. Besides, he's regarded as something...
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...
Fujimori tried to cast himself as the hero of the drama, which began with an explosive power play against his shadowy secret police chief, Vladimiro Montesinos Torres, after the latter was caught red-handed paying a bribe. But despite the jaunty posture Fujimori struck during the crisis, it looked as if his presidency had become terminally entangled in the web of intimidation, bribery and other criminal activity swirling around his erstwhile ally, Montesinos...