Posted on 04/22/2020 6:22:59 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1997, Peruvian paramilitaries stormed the Japanese ambassador’s residence held hostage for 126 days by leftist rebels. All 14 of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) were slain in the raid,* along with two of the commandos and one hostage. Officially, there were no “executions” at all. Unofficially?...
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On 10 October 2018, Keiko Fujimori was detained by police as part of an investigation surrounding the Odebrecht scandal and money laundering allegations that involved her 2011 presidential campaign. She was later released from detention on 17 October 2018 following an appeal. After seven days of arguments by Prosecutor José Domingo Pérez and Keiko Fujimori’s defense team, Judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho sentenced Fujimori to 36 months of pretrial detention, as part of an investigation of her alleged role as leader of a criminal organization within her political party, Fuerza Popular, and money laundering allegations of at least one million dollars involving Odebrecht, surrounding her 2011 presidential campaign.
After spending thirteen months in prison, Fujimori was temporarily released from pretrial detention in November 2019 during an appeal process. On 28 January 2020, she returned to Santa Mónica Prison after being sentenced to an additional fifteen months in pretrial detention.
The fall from grace is not over for the Fujimori's, but the scandals make it difficult to imagine a return to power.
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