Graham Finlay

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481 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Today with David McCullagh · Trump-backed outsider wins Colombian presidential election · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

And again, that was entirely decided by votes abroad.

Her opponent, Roberto Sanchez, was ahead when the votes of Peruvians living in Peru were counted.

But a massive vote for Fujimori took her over the top.

To put it mildly, I mean, she herself is really the heir of her father.

But Alberto Fujimori was the dominant figure of Peruvian politics, certainly from 1990 to 2000.

He engages in what is called a self-coup when you're in office and you disband, in his case, the Congress, suspend the Constitution, and disband the judiciary.

And he ruled like a dictator for eight years.

with the support of and basically in cahoots with and in the name of the army, executing what they called Plan Verde, which involved a lot of political and economic policies, but also incredible repression, including death squads aligned with or within the security services.

This has to be really, really acknowledged, the forced sterilization of 300,000 indigenous women as part of a population control campaign.

And so he was, I know, and corruption on a scale, which is rare even in South America.

I mean, at least $600 million was embezzled by the elder Fuhimori during his tenure there.

So he wins the election in 2000, but a scandal involving his right-hand man, Vladimir Montesinos, and just general belief that the election was stolen, you know, the opposition told him to spoil their votes, leads to him eventually fleeing to Japan, from which he cannot be extradited.

because he's also a Japanese citizen.

He's part of the small but influential Japanese minority in Peru.

But he eventually makes the mistake of going to Chile, where he is arrested, and brought back to Peru on numerous trials for crimes against humanity, namely forced sterilization and other things, and corruption, is convicted, sentenced to 25 years plus, goes to jail.

There's constant efforts to try and pardon him.

There's an amazing—too complicated to relate here—

back and forth between he gets a pardon and then it's annulled by the Constitutional Court and then he gets a pardon renewed and then the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, very interesting body and system, annuls that, right?

But eventually, brave Leo, he's released for sort of humanitarian reasons.

His daughter, Keiko, remember her, still says he's going to be the candidate in these recent presidential elections, but he dies two months later and she becomes the candidate.

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