13 Fujimori's ex-ministers face trial in Peru

13 Fujimori's ex-ministers face trial in Peru

www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-08 10:58:29


LIMA, March 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Thirteen former Peruvian cabinet ministers will be tried for their alleged part in ex-president Alberto Fujimori's 1992 "self-coup", the Supreme Court announced Monday.

The former ministers include Victor Joy Way, Carlos Bolonaare, Jaime Yoshiyama who were former premiers. The Supreme Court also announced that it will delay the trial of Fujimori until he is extradited from Chile.

Prosecutors filed a lawsuit against the 13 former ministers last September, seeking prison sentences of between 12 and 18 years against them and their expatriation upon release from prison.

Prosecutors also suggested that the Supreme Court sentence Alberto Fujimori 20 years in prison and 10 years in exile.

On April 5, 1992, with the support of the army, Fujimori dissolved the parliament, closed the courts and the prosecutors' offices under the rubric of a "National Emergency and Reconstruction" government, which was also called "self-coup."
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/08/content_4273950.htm

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Published on Thursday, May 10, 2001 in the Washington Post
U.S. Allies In Drug War In Disgrace
"The U.S. was our partner in every respect"
by Anthony Faiola

LIMA, Peru -- Inside a dilapidated downtown prison, a gaggle of former president Alberto Fujimori's top generals sulked around a green cement jail yard on a hot afternoon. The recently arrested generals whiled away their recreation time halfheartedly, playing soccer and reminiscing about the days when Fujimori's finest could count on at least one steadfast friend: Uncle Sam.
Gen. Juan Miguel del Aguila, head of Peru's National Anti-Terrorism Bureau until last year and, later, security chief of the National Police, recalled frequent meetings with U.S. intelligence agents right up to the moment when Fujimori abandoned the presidency and fled to Japan in November.

"The U.S. was our partner in every respect, giving us intelligence, training, equipment and working closely with us in the field," said del Aguila, who is charged with conspiracy in the state-sponsored bombing last year of a bank in central Lima, an act meant to look like the handiwork of Fujimori opponents to portray them as radicals"The United States was our best ally."

Less chatty, Gen. Nicolas Hermoza Rios, an honors graduate from the U.S. Army's School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga., shooed away a foreign journalist. The former head of Fujimori's joint chiefs during most of the 1990s -- a decade when Peru vied with Colombia as the top recipient of U.S. military aid in South America -- Hermoza had just pleaded guilty to taking $14 million in illicit gains from arms deals. He was still fighting more potent charges of taking protection money from the same drug lords the United States was paying Peru to fight.

The arrests of 18 generals in the six months since Fujimori's fall -- among more than 70 of his government's high ranking military and intelligence officials against whom criminal charges have been brought -- have lifted a curtain on the dark side of Washington's strategic partnership with Peru during the 1990s. Hailed as a model for U.S. military cooperation with Latin America, the tight alliance was part of a quest to crush leftist guerrillas and drug traffickers. To that end, the United States provided Peru not only cash, but also training, equipment, intelligence and manpower from the CIA, DEA and U.S. armed forces.
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0511-03.htm

13 Fujimori's ex-ministers face trial in Peru is just one of the many things that is taking place in Latin America. A must read!

This seems especially worth posting:

Furthermore, they are beginning to throw out the IMF. In the past, the US could prevent unwelcome developments such as independence in Latin America, by violence; supporting military coups, subversion, invasion and so on. That doesn't work so well any more. The last time they tried in 2002 in Venezuela, the US had to back down because of enormous protests from Latin America, and of course the coup was overthrown from within. That's very new.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened. Argentina is just essentially ridding itself of the IMF, as they say. They are paying off the debts to the IMF. The IMF rules that they followed had totally disastrous effects. They are being helped in that by Venezuela, which is buying up part of the Argentine debt.

Bolivia will probably do the same. Bolivia's had 25 years of rigorous adherence to IMF rules. Per capita income now is less than it was 25 years ago. They want to get rid of it. The other countries are doing the same. The IMF is essentially the US Treasury Department. It is the economic weapon that's alongside the military weapon for maintaining control. That's being dismantled.

All of this is happening against the background of very substantial popular movements, which, to the extent that they existed in the past, were crushed by violence, state terror, Operation Condor, one monstrosity after another. That weapon is no longer available.
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And this one:

But there has been a slow process in every one of the countries, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, all the way through, there's been a process of overthrowing the dominant dictatorships - the military dictatorships - almost always supported, and sometimes instituted, by the United States
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Thanks a lot, 0007! Excellent interview. We really need to see more truth in our world, don't we?

I think you can get more hits than me!

I posted the interview in Editorials, and other articles, knowing some articles I've posted in G.D. shot the hell out of here in no time!

Here's the other link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x195593

Thanks, again. He made such great points. I hope his faith in the human race is going to pay off in his lifetime.