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Fujimori verdict of guilty considered historic in Latin America

April 7, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Peru‘s former President Alberto Fujimori was found guilty on all charges Tuesday for sanctioning a paramilitary death squad that gunned down 25 people in two notorious massacres during the first two years of his 10-year authoritarian rule. The verdict is considered a paradigm in the hemisphere, since Fujimori is the only democratically-elected Latin American leader [...]