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unusual facts about Alberto Fujimori's arrest and trial


Gustavo Gorriti

In 2009, Fujimori was convicted by a Peruvian court for ordering the Gorriti kidnapping, among other human rights abuses, and sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.


Angelo Sodano

On 27 December 1998, he wrote, at the request of the democratic government of Chile, an official letter to the British prime minister Tony Blair stating that "the Chilean Government considers it an offence to its territorial sovereignty as a nation the fact of being deprived of the power to judge its own citizens" through the detention of Pinochet in Britain.

Augusto Vargas Alzamora

As Archbishop of Lima, he frequently clashed with Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, demanding that the president observe human rights and democratic forms, and, at a later stage, over the president's pushing of family planning programmes.

Cecilia Tait

The resignation of President Alberto Fujimori led to new elections the following year in which she was reelected for the period 2001–2006.

Chicha press

During Alberto Fujimori/Vladimiro Montesinos' administration some (if not all) of these newspapers were controlled through coercion or bribes in order to highlight Fujimori's regime and destroy the reputation and good name of political enemies of the regime.

Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi

Former president Alberto Fujimori promised to donate $2.5 million for the construction of the stadium; however the project only received S.

First Lady

In 1994, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori officially named his daughter Keiko "First Lady", after he had separated from his wife Susana Higuchi.

Gansito

As a result of the 1990s de-regulation of foreign capital, Bimbo/Marinela acquired the Peruvian company PYC and re-badged the product with the Mexican style.

Haitian Revolution of 1986

He was listed sixth, between Slobodan Milosevic and Alberto Fujimori, and was said to have amassed between $300 million to $800 million.

Héctor Chumpitaz

Despite retiring, Chumpitaz continued being a public figure, and, on December 3, 2004, he was found guilty and sentenced to four years of suspended sentence (probation), for allegedly accepting US$30,000 from presidential advisor and right-hand man Vladimiro Montesinos, supposedly after joining former minister Juan Carlos Hurtado in latter's quest to become mayor of Lima in 1998, during Alberto Fujimori's presidency.

Javier Valle Riestra

In 1998, Alberto Fujimori offered him the office of the President of the Council of Ministers of Peru, a post he assumed for a short time.

Mercedes Soler

Soler has interviewed various high-profile figures during her two decade career including Alberto Fujimori of Peru, Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico, Carlos Menem of Argentina, Violeta Chamorro and Arnoldo Alemán of Nicaragua, Abdalá Bucaram and Gustavo Noboa of Ecuador, and Ernesto Samper of Colombia.

Tomás Medina Caracas

He was also known for being the associate of Brazilian drug dealer Fernandinho Beiramar and for participating in an illegal arms deal of 10,000 AK-47s for the FARC through the Peruvian government official Vladimiro Montesinos, an adviser of former president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori.


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