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PERU: LIMA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION - EARLY RESULTS
Spanish/Nat
President Alberto Fujimori is leading in early results in Peru's presidential election, but appears headed for a runoff vote in his attempt to win an unprecedented third five-year term.
Unofficial results from 81 percent of...
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Supreme Court upholds 25 year sentence against former President
03 January 2010
1. Wide of news conference by an association of relatives of the victims of Al Cantuta and Barrios Altos massacre
2. Pan of relatives and lawyers
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Gisela Ortiz, relative of a victim of La Cantuta...
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PERU: FUJIMORI MEETS ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT JAMIL MAHUAD
Spanish/Nat
The presidents of Peru and Ecuador on Monday inaugurated the first concrete markers demarcating a 78 kilometer (49 mile) stretch of border that has formally ended Latin America's last border flashpoint.
Presidents Alberto...
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PERU: REBEL GUERRILLAS WANT PROGRESS WITH NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE
Spanish/Nat
Marxist guerillas holding 74 hostages in the Japanese ambassador's residence in Peru hoisted banners onto the rooftop Saturday declaring the crisis would not end without dialogue.
There was no sign of any progress in talks...
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PERU: DRAMATIC RISE IN NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY
Spanish/Nat
The economic crisis in Peru has seen a dramatic rise in the number of people living in poverty .
Around sixty percent of Peruvians are estimated to be on the breadline - with over five million of them in the slums of the...
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PERU: CONTROVERSY ROCK BANDS NEW SONG
Spanish/Nat
A Peruvian rock band has stirred up controversy in Peru with a song about an exiled former President.
The song is called 'Alan', and parodies the final years of the populist government of Alan Garcia who left in 1990 amid...
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PERU: AREQUIPA: ALBERTO FUJIMORI VISITS VICTIMS OF MUDSLIDE DISASTER
Spanish/Nat
A day after his return from Cuba, President Alberto Fujimori was again away from Lima.
This time the Peruvian leader went on a sympathy mission to the southern village of Arequipa, where a killer mud slide caused the death...
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Laura Bozzo to leave Telemundo and join Televisa
April 27, 2006
1. Wide of talk show host Laura Bozzo
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Laura Bozzo, talk show host:
"And that is where the whole impasse with Telemundo began, because they wanted me to renew immediately, they wanted me to sign, to...
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Pro-Fujimori congresswoman runs for presidency
AP Television
9 January 2006
1. Pan exterior of National Electoral Board
2. Zoom out of legal representative of Cambio 90-Nueva Mayoria political party
3. Mid of National Electoral Board representative
4. Mid of police line
5. SOUNDBITE...
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Security tightens ahead of Ibero-American summit
1. Wide military convoy
2. Medium shot of military walking
3. Close-up of military truck
4. Medium shot of military descending from truck
5. Exterior of summit venue
6. Medium shot of security checkpoint
7. Medium shot of vehicle...
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PERU: PRISONERS PARDONED BY GOVERNMENT FINDING LIFE TOUGH
Spanish/Nat
Hundreds of Peruvian terrorism prisoners pardoned by the government are finding life tough on the outside.
The government of President Alberto Fujimori has freed over 200 people it admits were unfairly convicted by military...
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PERU: LIMA: ARMED FORCES DAY CELEBRATED
Spanish/Nat
As the first anniversary of the siege at the Japanese Ambassador's residence in Peru approaches, the South American nation has been celebrating Armed Forces Day.
At a ceremony in Lima, President Alberto Fujimori hailed the...
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PERU: LIMA: BEAUTY QUEEN STRIPPED OF HER TITLE
Spanish/Nat
Miss Perú 1999, Rosa Elvira Cartagena, has been stripped of her title after it was discovered she lied about winning another international title.
The tall, dark haired Cartagena claimed she had won a beauty queen contest...
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PERU: WOMEN STAGE ANTI FUJIMORI PROTEST
Spanish/Nat
A group of women spraying symbolic insect repellent demonstrated outside the government palace in Peru's capital, Lima, on Thursday.
Police dispersed the crowd before they could reach the gates of the palace.
Inside,...
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PERU: LIMA: BEAUTY CONTEST HELD IN WOMEN'S JAIL
Spanish/Eng/Nat
Women inmates in a Peruvian jail have been holding a beauty contest to relieve the tedium of their spartan life.
It's become an annual event at Lima's Santa Monica prison.
Tired of international criticism of Peru's prison...
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Shining Path leader's trial enters third day
1. Wide shot of Callao Naval Base
2. Medium shot of police outside the base
3. Pan of police and journalists
4. Wide shot of relatives of defendants waiting to enter the court
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Pilar Quinto, Relative of a...
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CUBA: HAVANA: PERUVIAN PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI MEETS FIDEL CASTRO
Spanish/Nat
Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has held talks with Cuban leader Fidel Castro including discussions of Peru's hostage crisis.
Fujimori arrived in Havana Monday for a surprise visit.
The Peruvian leader said Cuba is...
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PERU: TENSION GROWS BETWEEN ECUADOR AND PERU
Eng/Span/Nat
Tensions are rising between Ecuador and Peru after each country accused the other of carrying out cross border attacks.
As Peru sends fresh troops to the wild frontier zone, Ecuador has declared a state of...
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MALAYSIA: APEC ECONOMIC SUMMIT: GORE/ABAC
English/Nat
Asia-Pacific leaders from 21 nations have begun their annual conference, concentrating on efforts to kick-start the regional economy, at the APEC summit in Kuala Lumpur.
It is a task made no easier by angry exchanges between...
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PERU: FUNERALS HELD OF 2 COMMANDOS KILLED AT JAPANESE EMBASSY
Spanish/Nat
Hundreds of mourners attended the funerals of two commandos killed in the operation to free hostages in Lima, Thursday.
President Fujimori also attended the funeral of the only hostage to die in the raid, Supreme Court...
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Toledo addresses Organisation of American States
1. Wide shot of Organisation of American States (OAS) meeting
2. Medium shot of OAS Secretary-General Cesar Gaviria and Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo
3. Wide shot of assembly
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cesar Gaviria, OAS...
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PERU: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS MARCH TO LIMA TO LAUNCH 3 DAY STRIKE
Spanish/Eng/Nat
Hundreds of dissatisfied construction workers in Peru have marched from the far corners of the country into the capital Lima.
The workers are demanding salary hikes and changes to Peru's labour laws.
Strike leaders said...
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President Toledo unveils fifth cabinet since coming to power
Lima, Peru February 16, 2004
1. Government Palace
2. Officials arriving
3. Zoom in on Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo
4. Audience
5. Swearing in of new Peruvian Economy Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
6. Toledo shaking hands with...
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PERU: PRESIDENT FUJIMORI VISITS HISTORIC CHAVIN RUINS
Chavin de Huantar, Peru, 9 April 1996
1. Aerials of Chavin de Huantar
2. Close-up deer.
3. Various of ruins.
4. Fujimori and Mario Gonzalez at the site of the ruins.
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Mario Gonzalez
6. Exterior of ruins.
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