Title: POLI3P43 Lecture 10: Alberto Fujimori and Contemporary Peru
1POLI3P43 Lecture 10 Alberto Fujimori and
Contemporary Peru
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4Fujimori travelled to Chile in November 2005
hoping to launch a new bid for the Peruvian
presidency in 2006 elections only to be arrested
on request of the Peruvian authorities.
5Peru has compiled 12 cases against Mr Fujimori,
including the death squad killing of 25 people in
two incidents known as La Cantuta and Barrios
Altos, illegal phone tapping, siphoning of state
funds to the intelligence service, bribing of
politicians and the transfer of 15m to his spy
chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. Tokyo refused
repeated requests to extradite Mr Fujimori but
the matter is now in the hands of Chilean
judicial authorities. Mr Fujimori denies all
the allegations, saying they are politically
motivated.
6He had vowed to return to Peru to stand in the
2006 presidential elections - despite being
banned from office until 2011. He set up a
political party, Si Cumple, and his supporters
launched a soft drink called Fuji-Cola, to help
finance his re-election campaign.
7Mr Fujimori still enjoys a measure of support in
Peru. An opinion poll conducted in Lima in
December 2005 suggested 24 of respondents
disagreed with the decision to bar Mr Fujimori
from standing in 2006.