The New York TimesThe Saturday ProfileA Second Fujimori Contends for Peru's PresidencyBy SIMON ROMEROPublished: May 27, 2011LIMA, Peru Meridith Kohut for The New York Times"I reject and lament the errors and crimes that were committed by officials in my father's government." KEIKO FUJIMORI More Photos » MultimediaMeridith Kohut for The New York TimesKeiko Fujimori, right, with her husband, Mark Vito Villanella and their daughters, Kyara Sofía and Kaori Marcela, in Lima, Peru. More Photos » KEIKO FUJIMORI'S father, Alberto K. Fujimori, Peru's former president, sits in prison here serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses. Her mother, Susana Higuchi, has shown scars on her neck that Ms. Higuchi said resulted from torture by Mr. Fujimori's intelligence agents after Ms. Higuchi accused her husband of tolerating corruption in his midst. If that were not enough, Mr. Fujimori's former spymaster, Vladimiro Montesinos, has testified that he illegally used state funds to pay for Ms. Fujimori's Boston University tuition in the 1990s. Between semesters there and after graduating, she served as Peru's first lady, assuming a visible role in her father's corruption-addled government after her parents divorced. In some countries, such a complicated family history might be an obstacle for someone seeking election as president. But not in Peru, where Ms. Fujimori, who turned 36 this month, holds a narrow lead in a tight race over Ollanta Humala, a former military officer who led a rebellion against her father in 2000. The election is June 5. The choice between two extreme candidates, after centrists split the vote in the first election round, has shocked many who are familiar with the ambitions of Mr. Humala, who espouses a nationalist ideology of asserting state control over natural resources, and of Ms. Fujimori, who wants her disgraced father released from prison. "It would be like Tricia Nixon running for president at age 35, if her father had received the jail time he deserved, with a program that consisted of nothing more than pardoning him," Dennis Jett, a former United States ambassador to Peru, said in an essay in The Miami Herald comparing Ms. Fujimori to the elder daughter of Richard M. Nixon. In an interview at her home here, Ms. Fujimori repeatedly insisted that her father, who is still admired by some Peruvians for delivering crushing blows against Maoist insurgents and for stabilizing Peru's economy, was an innocent man. Peru's Supreme Court convicted Mr. Fujimori, 72, in 2009 of various crimes, including his government's creation of an assassination squad that killed 25 people, one of them an 8-year-old boy. An Aug. 23, 1990, State Department cable cited a Peruvian intelligence source who said that the squad, called the Colina Group, had "the tacit approval of President Fujimori." When asked about her father's conviction and his decision to move his children from the presidential palace, the target of car bombs in 1990, to the National Intelligence Service's bunker where they lived next to the luxurious quarters of Mr. Montesinos, the shadowy espionage chief, Ms. Fujimori said, "Those were difficult years, not just for us but for all Peruvians." MS. FUJIMORI famously said in 2008 that her "hand would not tremble" to sign a pardon for her father if she were elected president, pleasing Mr. Fujimori's followers who still adoringly call him Chino, in a nod to his Asian ancestry. But she has recently backed away from that stance. "That was a spontaneous statement as a daughter," she said. Instead, Ms. Fujimori now says she would prefer to see her father freed through court appeals. That prospect, in a country with fragile judicial institutions still recovering from the disarray of Mr. Fujimori's 10-year rule, has put judges on edge. Prominent supporters of Ms. Fujimori and her father, including Martha Chávez, a former legislator, have begun issuing veiled threats against those who ruled against the former president, saying they will have to answer for their actions.
Some of the tension surrounding the candidacy of Ms. Fujimori, who took 23.6 percent of the first-round vote against Mr. Humala's 31.7 percent, seems expected by the daughter of a man who polarized Peru. In an extraordinary political career, he burst onto the public stage in 1990 as an unknown agronomist and won plaudits for his uncompromising stand against leftist guerrillas before fleeing into exile in Japan in 2000. Japan always loomed large for Ms. Fujimori, the eldest of four siblings who were born into Peru's small Japanese-Peruvian community, which numbers about 80,000 in a country of 29 million. Still, when the time came for her to study abroad, she opted for the United States. First, during the tumult of her father's government, she studied at Boston University (she rejects accusations that her expenses there were paid out of public funds). Then, after Mr. Fujimori's resignation, she went to Columbia University's business school, where she met Mark Villanella, a self-described "Jersey guy" from Berkeley Heights, N.J. They wed in 2004 and now have two daughters. At their spacious home here, photos of Ms. Fujimori's parents in happier times were on display. They showed her father, bursting with youthful vigor, before he fell into disgrace and went to prison. Alongside him was Ms. Fujimori's mother, Ms. Higuchi, before she accused Mr. Fujimori of allowing his henchmen to torture her. Ms. Higuchi's accusations have been corroborated by a former Peruvian intelligence agent who said she witnessed Ms. Higuchi in 1995 naked and cowering in an army intelligence cell. But Ms. Fujimori played down her mother's claims, saying a court in Chile, which extradited Mr. Fujimori to Peru in 2007, had not moved ahead with an inquiry into the torture claims. From exile in Japan in 2002, Mr. Fujimori dismissed his ex-wife's accusations, saying her scars were the result of moxibustion, a traditional Asian therapy for back pain. Either way, Ms. Fujimori said she and her mother, who rarely appears in public and did not respond to an interview request, now had a "warm" relationship. "What's more, she said she would vote for me," Ms. Fujimori said. OTHERS here who said they would vote for Ms. Fujimori are prepared to do so either out of fears of her rival, Mr. Humala, or admiration for her jailed father. "He gave peace to this country," said Óscar Arrunategui, 37, a businessman. "He gave poor people water, electricity and sewage; this country is how it is thanks to Fujimori." When confronted with less shining assessments of her father, who was also convicted of overseeing the kidnappings of Samuel Dyer, a businessman, and Gustavo Gorriti, a prominent journalist, Ms. Fujimori has learned to pause and take a moment to straighten her spine. (Like her rival, Mr. Humala, she is making an effort to hew to more moderate ideas.) Then she smiles broadly and delivers a well-rehearsed response. "I'm aware that big mistakes were made," she said, while insisting her father was innocent of any crimes. In Ms. Fujimori's view, the blame for such transgressions lies elsewhere. "I reject and lament the errors and crimes that were committed by officials in my father's government," she said. It is a delicate political dance. She embraces her father's legacy while disowning his government's authoritarian excesses and burnishes her own law-and-order credentials by hiring Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, as an adviser. In a race that is evoking old political ghosts, little seems to faze many Peruvians, including the revelation this month that Mr. Fujimori himself was helping to manage his daughter's campaign from his spacious prison cell. In fact, her strategy of paying homage to her disgraced father may just work to deliver her the presidency of a country where deep dissatisfaction persists with the political status quo, side by side with fond memories, among some, of Mr. Fujimori's rule. Those loyal to Ms. Fujimori's cause sum up their visceral feelings, more for her father than his daughter, in a few words. "I'm Fujimorista," said Rómulo Rojas, 68, a retired shoe repairman. "So I chose Keiko a long time ago." The Miami Herald PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONWhy Peru's political suicide should matter to AmericansBY DENNIS JETTdcj10@sia.psu.eduPeru had its presidential election on Sunday, and the outcome could not have been worse. Few Americans will care about that, but they should. The result is not just another example of Latin America's self-destructive tendencies. It may be America's future. Here is what happened and why it matters. There were 10 candidates for president, but only half of them had any real chance. There were three centrists with the credentials to govern well — Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, an economist with degrees from Oxford and Princeton; former president Alejandro Toledo, who has a Ph.D. from Stanford; and Luis Castañeda Lossio, the former mayor of Lima. They divided the political center, however, and that allowed two extremists to finish first and second. Those two will proceed to a runoff election in June. On the far left and coming in first was Ollanta Humala, a former army officer and coup plotter. Humala was first in the last presidential election five years ago, but lost the runoff to the current president, Alan Garcia, by a few percentage points. This time Humala bought himself a suit and a new set of talking points and has tried to sound more reasonable, while still maintaining his populist credentials. Predicting how President Humala might govern is impossible, given his lack of relevant experience or anything that one might call a political philosophy. If his family is any indication, it won't be pretty. His father is a communist who thinks all the imprisoned terrorists in Peru should be freed, his mother thinks homosexuals should be shot and his brother was convicted of kidnapping and murder. Humala went to great lengths this time to distance himself from Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez, who is unpopular in Peru. But once in office, Humala will no doubt copy Chávez's style of pitting the poor against the rich in order to accumulate more power. Facing off against him will be Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Alberto Fujimori, the former president who is now in prison for the crimes committed during his regime. It would be like Tricia Nixon running for president at age 35, if her father had received the jail time he deserved, with a program that consisted of nothing more than pardoning him. Humala will probably win in June and then start rewriting the constitution to permit his immediate reelection. That will require a majority in Congress, which he can obtain by letting Fujimori out of jail and thereby gaining the support of his followers. Why should this bleak panorama interest Americans? Peru's election results show that when the poor believe they have no stake in the political and economic order, they opt for extremes. The more extreme the candidate, the more appealing he is because he promises radical change. That happened in Peru despite a decade of remarkable and consistent economic growth and low inflation. The benefits of that growth have not trickled down enough, however. A leader who promises to end corruption, improve the lives of the poor and keep them safe will get their votes, even when there is no chance that person can actually deliver. Income inequality in the United States is at an all-time high and approaching that of Latin America. Even though the tax burden is lower now than at any time since the Eisenhower administration, the rich here, as in Latin America, always insist they pay too much. Given the cost of running for office, the market economy ensures that the winners are the best politicians money can buy. The result is the current budget debate in Washington, where the discussion centers on how to dismantle the social safety net in order to cut taxes on the wealthy even more. When any of this is pointed out, the reaction is that the critics are resorting to class warfare. But the war has already begun. Common sense and common purpose have already been victims of that war in much of Latin America. Now Peru has set itself back economically and politically by decades. America is on the same path to division and irrelevance. That process is a tragedy for Peru. It will be a disaster for the world if it happens here. Dennis Jett is a former U.S. ambassador and international affairs professor at Pennsylvania State University. Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/11/2162492/why-perus-political-suicide-should.html#ixzz1NikZYUey La Republica Campaña de Keiko Fujimori se dirige desde la Diroes Mié, 18/05/2011 - 07:24
Edmundo Cruz y Jonathan Castro. En réplica a un informe de La República, la candidata presidencial de Fuerza 2011 Keiko Fujimori dijo ayer sin inmutarse: "Al lado de la prisión de mi padre, en la Diroes, hay un local de campaña como hay cientos de bases a nivel nacional". Pero el local de Fuerza 2011 ubicado al lado de la puerta del Establecimiento Penal Barbadillo, donde está recluido Alberto Fujimori, no es un local cualquiera. Por su actividad, fácilmente puede ser visto como el principal centro de aprovisionamiento y distribución de material propagandístico del fujimorismo para esta segunda vuelta. En el umbral mismo El fujimorismo no habría podido encontrar un inmueble más cercano. El local ubicado en el Lote 40, de la Manzana A, Urbanización Florida II, no está ubicado en la vereda del frente, sino en la misma manzana de la Diroes. La pared del fondo del local partidario de Fuerza 2011 es colindante con la repartición policial. La primera casa ubicada a la derecha de la puerta del penal es el local de Fuerza 2011. Tiene un área de 250 metros cuadrados y fue alquilado en el 2008 en pleno juicio al ex mandatario, en previsión de la sentencia que se le impusiera. De Wilson a la Diroes Ayer, La República visitó los talleres de DLG Multiservices. Habíamos observado el ingreso frecuente de una camioneta de propiedad de esta impresora al penal de Diroes y nos intrigó. Encontramos al personal trabajando a todo dar en la confección de tres mil gigantografías con la imagen de Keiko Fujimori y de su padre (ver al lado fotos de la visita), de 3 por 2 metros. Era el pedido de la semana. Las imprimían en los stands 140 y 125 del Cyber Plaza, segundo piso. Lo cierto es que una camioneta Volkswagen Amarok, placa B5S 843, de esta empresa fue vista por La República ingresando a Diroes el 19 y 28 de abril y el 9 de mayo, cargada de gigantografías, hecho que motivó nuestra visita a esa empresa. ¿Por qué este material fue llevado a Diroes y no al local central de Fuerza 2011, de Paseo Colón 422, Cercado de Lima? Verificación y reparto El sábado 14 de mayo, un visitante fujimorista salió portando un paquete al hombro. Nuestro reportero gráfico lo siguió (ver fotos edición del domingo 15) y comprobó su ingreso al local de Fuerza 2011 del Lote 40, a 20 metros del penal. Allí descargó la mercadería electoral y recibió otra adicional. Otras veces, los vehículos ingresan hasta dentro del penal y después salen a depositar su carga en el local-almacén del Lote 40. Los taxistas son excelentes fuentes de información. En las tantas veces que hemos recurrido a sus servicios para ir a Diroes, hemos escuchado dos historias sobre servicios prestados para ingresar al penal. A fines del 2010, Miguel Ramírez, candidato al Congreso por Fuerza 2011, uno de los promocionados y de los que más ha aportado a la campaña fujimorista, contrató un taxi para ingresar al penal. Llevaba consigo un modelo de cocina a gas para que el interno verifique si tenía las características adecuadas para sortearlas entre sus simpatizantes. Las camionetas que más han sido vistas llevando material al local de campaña cerca de la Diroes son de su empresa, PROINSA Representaciones. Otro veterano del servicio público contó una función parecida para el caso de los polos. Este trasladó polos de Barbadillo a una empresa de transportes rumbo a Cañete. LOS DE LA VISTA GORDA Todo esto ocurre a vista y paciencia de las autoridades de Diroes e INPE. Cuando Fujimori fue extraditado de Chile e internado en el penal acondicionado en esa gran unidad policial, el director de la Dirección de Seguridad de Penales (Dirsepen) era el general Alfredo Miranda Benavides, de la ex Guardia Republicana, integrante de la promoción del ex ministro del Interior Octavio Salazar y del actual ministro Miguel Hidalgo. Le sucedió en esa responsabilidad Gudencio Debenedetti Vargas Machuca, ex Guardia Civil, cuestionado por malversar fondos de la dirección policial del Callao. El caso está en inspectoría, pero el alto oficial sigue en actividad como director de planeamiento y presupuesto de la PNP. Debenedetti ocupó el cargo dos años. En su oficina de los Cibeles, en el Rímac, era muy visitado por Carlos Raffo. Bajo su gestión se acostumbraba a recortar el número de visitantes a Fujimori. Por breve lapso, Dirsepen tuvo como director al coronel Hugo Delgado. Hasta que asumió el cargo el coronel PNP Eduardo Mendoza Sana, también de la ex Guardia Republicana. Mientras tanto, en el alto mando de la Diroes se sucedieron del 2008 a la fecha el coronel Armando Martínez Salazar, un cercano colaborado del hoy congresista por Fuerza 2011 Octavio Salazar Miranda. El 2009 lo relevó el coronel PNP Hernán Valdivieso Carpio, quien fue sorprendido por la prensa paseándose con el interno ex presidente fuera del penal. El coronel Edinson Zúñiga Alva gobernó durante el 2010 y el actual jefe es el coronel PNP Fredy Roncal Jiménez. El dato Fujimoristas rodean toda la Diroes En la misma avenida, a 50 metros de la puerta principal de la Diroes, en un descampado, armaron una segunda base. Esta vez la cercaron con esteras y la tomaron para realizar sus reuniones. Desde ese local se organizaban las pintas por la inocencia del ex presidente. En la puerta colocaron una inscripción que decía "Prensa amarilla, cachorra de caviares". Hace dos años alquilaron el local actual. Pero ese almacén no es el único. Con regalos y buenos tratos, los fujimoristas han ido haciéndose de la confianza de todos los vecinos de la puerta 2 del ingreso Sur-Oeste de Barbadillo. Cifras 18 mil nuevos soles fue lo que gastaron en 3 mil gigantografías la semana pasada. 20 vehículos fueron registrados el jueves 5 de mayo, el día de más visitas.   Participe (46)Comente, analice, critique de manera seria. Mensajes con contenido vulgar, difamatorio o que no tenga que ver con el tema, serán eliminados. Lea las Normas de Uso. Vie, 20/05/2011 - 14:00 — juan carlos meza huayra  Ya es momento de decidir basta de engaño Huancavelica votaremos por Ollanta Humala porque hay razones ya no queremos más venta de nuestras tierras, minerales, porque cada día somos invadidos por extranjeros y cada día habré mesaría yo voto por la esperanza y sin temores. La corrupción ha sido la degradación moral de mucha gente y de las instituciones de nuestro país ¿Keiko es la hija del prófugo extraditado, juzgado y condenado por asesino, ladrón y corrupto? Y está peleando en la segunda vuelta con posibilidades de ser presidente del Perú participación cínica y abusiva de Alan García y con el concertado apoyo de la mafia periodística (casi toda la TV, prensa y radio) y de los grandes empresarios y de políticos Mié, 18/05/2011 - 23:41 — juan carlos yo vote en primera vuelta por PPK, pero ahora votare en segunda vuelta por OLLANTA HU7MALA, no pudeo concebir ver como presidenta a una estafadora y mala hija Mié, 18/05/2011 - 21:35 — DANIEL FLORES MENA Todos tomemos conciencia jovenes pregunten a sus padre como fue en el tiempo de fujimori KEIKO YA NO ERA UNA NIÑA O NOS VA A ENGAÑAR DICIENDO QUE ELLA NO SABIA QUE ERA SER PRIMERA DAMA Y QUE BIEN CALLADITA ESTUDIO CON DINERO QUE NO ERAN DE SUS PADRES Mié, 18/05/2011 - 20:30 — lucrecia YO NO VOTO POR EL MAL MENOR , PORQUE LLAMAR MAL MENOR AL ROBO, A LA PATRAÑA ¿QUÉ ES ESTO? SE VE QUE QUIEN LO AFIRMA NO SABE LO QUE DICE. YO QUIERO ARRIESGAR MI VOTO POR HUMALA, PORQUE NO QUIERO QUE MI PAÍS SE SIGA CORROMPIENDO HASTA LAS ENTRAÑAS. Mié, 18/05/2011 - 19:55 — José Antonio Para Jose Luis y Omar: Mié, 18/05/2011 - 16:55 — Jose Luis Es lamentable haber llegado a todo esto, lo peor es q muchos de los medios ya se parcializaron y no muestran estas noticias, el periodismo otra vez se resquebraja, yo todavia no se porquien voy a votar, pero primero dignidad q a una supuesta buena economia! ...se por quien no voy a votar! No Fujimori! Mié, 18/05/2011 - 16:40 — Omar No entiendo, que esta prohibido alquilar locales cerca de la DIROES??????????????????????????? Ya no sean huachafos, la gente tiene el derecho de alquilar donde se le de la gana, eso es democracia o no???????????? Y no voy a votar por Keiko , pero estar alarmando a la gente por las puras no me parece correcto, no caigan, esto en verdad que tipo de corrupción demuestra??????????????????........................ Mié, 18/05/2011 - 16:34 — ROSSINA LUCHEMOS UNIDOS CONTRA LA MAFIA Y LA CORRUPCIÓN, QUE ESTE 5 DE JUNIO SEA UNA VERDADERA FIESTA DEMOCRÁTICA. HONESTIDAD ES LA DIFERENCIA. POR UN PERÚ PARA TODOS LOS PERUANOS Mié, 18/05/2011 - 16:26 — ricardo la realidad es una sola la mafia y el fujimorismo son gemelos. los medios de informacion se siguen vendiendo como prostitutas. por favor queridos amigos peruanos tu que todavia crees en keiko trata por un segundo de ser analitico como apoyar con tu voto a alguien que fue un delincuente un asesino ladron omo podras decirl a tus hijos que no se debe robar que no se debe matar. demos una oportunidad a la izquierda que hace 30 años que no gobierna. y apoyemos al peru que debe cambiar. Mié, 18/05/2011 - 16:21 — Irene les recomiendo que no todo lo que dicen estos nedios de informacion son verdaderos se nota cuando estan a favor de alguien como este diario que esta a favor de Ollanta y a favor del comunismo de Chavez, en el registro de la celda de Fujimori no encontraron ninguna propaganda de Keyko. por el bien del pais voten por el mal menor y no por el comunismo Que Dios los bendiga y los ilumine no quiero ver a mi pais como Cuba,Venezuela, Ecuador,Bolivia,Nicaragua con estos dictadores de por vida, complises del narcotrafico y de las guerrillas. Mié, 18/05/2011 - 15:49 — Santos La verdad se abre paso, solo es cuestión de tiempo, gracias a este diario que permanece la llama de la libertad se descubre a la corrupción, SE CONFIRMA que la dirección de la campaña se dirige desde la cárcel como todo un mafioso. Las Rifas son otro cuento NO RECOGEN PREMIO PUES EL GANADOR ESTA EN LA CARCEL SU NOMBRE: VLADIMIRO MONTESINOS que es muy seguro que ha comprado todos los ticktes que "sobraron". Solo hay una opción el 5 de junio. Mié, 18/05/2011 - 15:44 — jOSE La kkeiko solamente es la pantalla de toda una mafia, que utilizando al chino, como siempre y porque le gusta la mamdera, es la mafia la que va a gobernar, ahora es la pelea si ganase, sueño, es Gobernará Fuhimori o Montesinos? Mié, 18/05/2011 - 15:42 — luis No otra vez a los tiempos del terror y el miedo, no otra vez a las desapariciones. Mié, 18/05/2011 - 15:33 — Mejor aprende a votar Con Una K que vota mismo ley favorece Chino misma impunidad favorece China y mismo Congreso favorece Kenyi Mié, 18/05/2011 - 15:33 — RIP García kiere q alguien le cuide las espaldas, x eso está temblando ante el hecho d q salga Ollanta; pero no lo logrará !!!!! la corrupción no volverá tan fácilmente !!!! x + q lo intente Alan García Mié, 18/05/2011 - 15:27 — juan Es una verdadera verguenza que el gobierno corrupto alanista se haga de la vista gorda lo que esta pasando en la DIROES al igual que el poder judicial. Este centro penal se ha convertido en el centro principal de comando para la campan~a de Keiko. Mié, 18/05/2011 - 15:24 — ElCambio Que asco dan estos fujimoris... Espero que la gente despierte y recapacite su voto. No permitamos que esta Lacra nuevamente nos gobierno, aun que no quiere voy a tener que votar por Humala..... 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