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 Peru After Fujimori and Montesinos Wednesday, March 7, 2001
Sensational videos of politicians taking bribes from CIA-backed spy chief Vladimir Montesinos have transfixed Peru in recent
weeks. With Montesinos now in hiding and former president Alberto Fujimori in exile, the Andean nation will vote for a new
president on April 8. Arturo Valenzuela, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown, says
democracy can recuperate but Jorge Santisevan, former human rights ombudsman, says the United States owes Peru a debt for
supporting its now-disgraced strongmen. In Peru Candid Cameras Leave Audiences Stunned |
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