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PERU: LIMA: JAPANESE ENVOY ARRIVES TO DISCUSS HOSTAGE CRISIS
English/Nat
A Japanese envoy arrived in Lima Tuesday to discuss the Peruvian hostage crisis.
Masahiki Koumura, the Japanese vice-minister of foreign affairs, met with Canadian negotiator Anthony Vincent and Peruvian President Alberto...
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Preview of trial of former president Fujimori
Lima - 9 December 2007
1. Various of people at demonstration
2. Various of relatives carrying pictures of victims of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's regime
3. More of relatives
4. Wide pan from cameramen to microphone where...
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Son and lawyer visits former Peruvian President in prison
1. Mid view Gendarmeria school (Police academy)
2. Wide view Gendarmeria school
3. Mid view of lawyer Cesar Nagasaki arriving
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Cesar Nagasaki, Alberto Fujimori's lawyer:
"The extradition process is really waiting...
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PERU: ANTI GOVERNMENT PROTESTS
Spanish/Nat
Anti-government protestors took to the streets of Lima on Monday night, throwing anything they could get their hands on at the police and calling for President Alberto Fujimori's resignation.
Riot shields in place and teargas...
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PERU: EL SALVADOR'S PRESIDENT ARMANDO CALDERON SOL VISIT
Spanish/Nat
El Salvador's President, on an official visit to Peru, says that the development of closer ties with North America is being hampered by the United States.
President Armando Calderon Sol told reporters that Latin American...
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Truth commission to investigate human rights abuses
1. Wide shot of Peruvian Ministers
2. Pan of President Valentin Paniagua, Prime Minister Javier Perez de Cuellar and Minister of Defence General Walter Ledesma
3. Member of the "Truth Commission"
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Salomon Lerner,...
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PERU: SUSANA HIGUCHI ABANDONS HUNGER STRIKE
Spanish/Nat
The estranged wife of Peru's president Alberto Fujimori is in a Lima clinic after abandoning her hunger strike today.
Susana Higuchi began her protest after her party's application to participate in the parliamentary...
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PERU: DEPUTY COMMANDER OF SHINING PATH PEDRO QUINTEROS CAPTURED
Spanish/Nat
The Peruvian authorities have captured the deputy commander of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, in a Lima shantytown restaurant.
Pedro Quinteros, know as "Comrade Luis" was arrested by police on Monday after being tracked...
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PERU: THREE PLANES DOWNED IN BORDER DISPUTE
Spanish/Nat
Peru has lost three of its warplanes in the latest incident in its border war with Ecuador.
The planes were downed as they launched a bombing raid along the disputed Amazon border. One pilot is missing.
With peace talks...
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Alejandro Toledo sworn in as President of Peru.
1. Peru's President-elect Alejandro Toledo enters Congress
2. Toledo walks onto stage
3. Congress applauding
4. Toledo and Congress President embrace
5. Cutaway of Toledo's wife
6. Alejandro Toledo on stage
7. Various of Congress
8....
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USA: WASHINGTON: PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI WILL TALK WITH REBELS
Spanish/Eng/Nat
President Alberto Fujimori has declared that long-awaited talks with rebels holding hostages for seven weeks could begin as early as this week.
Fujimori is due back in Lima Tuesday following a meeting with President...
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AP intv with daughter of former president Fujimori, ahead of trial
March 24, 2009
1. Wide of Keiko Fujimori, Congresswoman and daughter of former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, seated at desk during interview
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Keiko Fujimori, Congresswoman and daughter of former Peruvian...
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PERU: PRESIDENT FUJIMORI FIRES MILITARY COMMANDER HERMOZA
Spanish/Nat
Peru's President Alberto Fujimori has fired his military chief General Nicolas Hermoza Rios, one of Peru's top powerbrokers.
The sacking of Hermoza comes a week after Fujimori negotiated intensely to cool border tensions...
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PERU: PRO DEMOCRACY RALLY WRAP
Spanish/Nat
Pro-democracy protests in Peru turned sour late on Thursday night when riot police used water canons on a group of demonstrators who were trying to reach the government palace.
Earlier thousands had marched to Lima's main...
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PERU: MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS WINNER ALBERTO ANDRADE
Spanish/Nat
Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's hand-picked candidate for mayor of Lima has lost against a local independent.
Alberto Andrade - a businessman and mayor of the upper-class Miraflores district in Lima - beat Jaime...
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Latest documents released on Montesinos case
7 January, 2002
1. Wide shot of Peruvian Thousand Congress building
2. Mid shot of Annel Thousand and Antonio Arias, US political advisor in Peru
3. Close up documents being released by the US Embassy in Peru
4. Cutaway, press
5. Wide...
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Fujimori lawyer presser as human rights trial nears end
Lima - February 25 2009
1. Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori arriving in court
2. Fujimori in court
3. Fujimori looking through notes
4. Pan of judges arriving in court
5. Pan of Fujimori speaking to his lawyers
AP...
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ARGENTINA: PERUVIAN PRESIDENT FUJIMORI VISIT
Spanish/Nat
Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is in Argentina to discuss increasing border tension between Peru and Ecuador with Argentinian President, Carlos Menem.
The dispute flared up again this week after army units began...
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PERU: POLITICAL MOVES FOLLOWING FUJIMORI RESIGNATION
Spanish/Nat
Peru's President Alberto Fujimori cut short an unprecedented third term when he resigned on Monday.
The move set off an immediate scramble over who would replace him.
But a Fujimori ally who's next in line for the post,...
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PERU: LIMA: PENSIONERS PROTEST AGAINST POSSIBLE CUT IN BENEFITS
Spanish/Nat
Hundreds of pensioners took to the streets of Lima, the capital of Peru, on Tuesday to protest against a new law that could cut social security benefits for the poor.
The march coincided with a slump in the popularity of...
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PERU: VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS IN THREE WEEKS
Spanish/Nat
Voters in Peru go to the polls in three weeks to elect a new president.
President Alberto Fujimori is the overwhelming favourite in the polls - but at least two of his rivals will not go down without putting up an intense...
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Japanese Prime Minister meets Peruvian President
1. Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese Prime Minister (right), shaking hands with President of Peru, Alan Garcia
2. Peruvian and Japanese flags on table, pull back to wide of meeting
3. Close of Garcia with Peruvian delegation, pan to Fukuda and...
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Fujimori talks about charges, protest in Peru capital
Santiago, Chile
1. Reporters outside house where former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori is staying
2. Reporters at front gate of house
3. Vehicle carrying Fujimori arriving at house
4. Fujimori surrounded by security and reporters...
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PERU: FUJIMORI SAYS "NO PARDON FOR JAILED AMERICAN WOMAN"
Spanish/Nat
President Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday said there would be no pardon for an American woman jailed in Peru, despite calls for clemency from his own prime minister.
Fujimori said New York-native Lori Berenson, 28, was fairly...