Fujimori Now Under Arrest

This Alberto apparently is no Einstein. Alberto Fujimori has now been arrested by Chilean authorities:

Fujimori made the trip at a time of tense relations between Peru and Chile due to a dispute over maritime limits between the two countries.

"Apparently Fujimori thought he could exploit tensions between the two countries to plot his return to Peru," said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director of Human Rights Watch. "But given the record of Chilean courts on extradition cases, it's still too early to know whether he miscalculated."

A Chilean Supreme Court Justice must now determine whether basic conditions have been met to grant Peru's request for Fujimori's extradition. Chilean courts have rejected Peruvian extradition requests in other corruption cases linked to the Fujimori regime.

"The Chilean judiciary did the right thing by ordering Fujimori's arrest," said Vivanco. "Now it needs to determine whether his days of evading justice are over."

He certainly has a lot to answer. One wonders, however, as incredibly unpopular as current President Alejandro Toledo is, whether Fujimori will be greated as the corrupt authoritarian or be compared favorably with Toledo.

Comments

[boz]

One wonders, however, as incredibly unpopular as current President Alejandro Toledo is, whether Fujimori will be greated as the corrupt authoritarian or be compared favorably with Toledo.
The answer to that is: yes.

Fujimori is not all that popular. He has maybe 20% support nationwide, mostly coming from small pockets of support in rural areas that still credit him with dealing with the Shining Path. Still, he'll be compared favorably to Toledo, because, well, my left sock could be compared favorably to Toledo.

[Randinho]

Well, what really worries me is his appearance before a sympathetic judge.

Vamos a ver.