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  Peru -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peru has been inhabited since at least the 9th millennium BC, and the earliest known American civilization emerged there in the Norte Chico region c.3000 BC Peru was later the center of several developed cultures, including the Chavín (see Chavín de Huántar), the Chimu, and the Nazca.
Peru's loyalty to Spain was due to the relatively large number of Spaniards who resided there, to the concentration of Spanish power at Lima, and to the efficiency of the government in the viceroyalty.
Peru continued to be torn by civil strife until the emergence of Gen. Ramón Castilla, who was president from 1844 to 1850 and from 1855 to 1862.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Peru_History.asp   (2585 words)

  
 An Hour With The President Of Peru
Peru is about one-eighth the size of the United States; it would almost make nine states of the size of New York; and in it are vast areas of good land.
Parts of Peru are well adapted to the raising of the cacao, such, for instance, as the province of Cuzco, in which there are nine estates, having altogether 27,000,000 cacao trees, or an average of 300,000 each.
Later on the wealth of the guano islands was added to that of the mines, and Peru received hundreds of millions of dollars from her manure piles.
www.oldandsold.com /articles29/south-america-10.shtml   (2017 words)

  
 [30 Jun 1999]: PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT OF PERU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
President Fujimori, responding to a question about a "very strong campaign" by the Vatican to have the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994) watered down and changes made, said Peru's family planning programme had also improved the living conditions of many families.
The President also told correspondents that Peru had its traditions and cultural heritage, which the hierarchy of the Catholic Church recognized.
President Fujimori said: "I think it is not only a problem or responsibility of a government, but society itself".
www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1999/19990630.PERU.BRF.html   (389 words)

  
 Peru - The President
The president, who must be Peruvian and over thirty-five years of age, was elected to a five-year term by direct popular vote, along with the first and second vice presidents.
The constitutional president had a wide range of powers and served as chief of state and commander in chief of the armed forces.
The president was purportedly uncomfortable with the degree of power that Hurtado Miller had and wanted to retain firmer control of the cabinet in general and economic policy in particular.
countrystudies.us /peru/72.htm   (531 words)

  
 The Daily Texan
The president was on a visit to his ancestral homeland, Japan, and stepped down in a letter to President of Congress Valentin Paniagua.
President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic," Fujimori wrote in the two-page letter, a copy of which was faxed to The Associated Press by the Government Palace.
Second Vice President Ricardo Marquez said Sunday that he was ready to assume the presidency and lead Peru to special elections on April 8.
tspweb02.tsp.utexas.edu /webarchive/11-21-00/2000112103_s04_President.html   (684 words)

  
 News (washingtonpost.com)
However, opposition leader Alejandro Toledo said neither Tudela nor Marquez should be president, because both were elected in the same controversial runoff that Fujimori won in May, a vote that drew widespread fraud allegations.
Peru's powerful armed forces said they would support any changes in the government as long as the constitution was respected.
Japanese officials have denied speculation in Peru that Fujimori is seeking asylum to protect against prosecution for corruption scandals.
washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/printedition/int/peru20.htm   (1148 words)

  
 An Ex-President of Peru Plots His Return
Fujimori, former president of Peru, has parried an Interpol arrest request, started a political movement in Peru, maintained his "From Tokyo" Web site, and transmitted programs for his new hourlong weekly radio show, which is broadcast on 60 stations in Peru.
Alejandro Toledo, Peru's current president, is bumping along at the bottom of polls, most recently winning a 7 percent approval rating among voters polled in the Lima area.
Fujimori second, behind Alan García, a liberal populist whose presidency in the late 1980's was blighted by hyperinflation and soaring guerrilla violence.
www.latinamericanstudies.org /peru/return.htm   (848 words)

  
 Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Fujimori was born in Lima, Peru, in 1938.
Peru was rich in natural resources, but it lacked the investment capital to use them - and Alan Garcia's socialist experiments had left a disastrous effect on foreign direct investments.
Vladimiro Montesinos, an ex-Army captain who was cashiered in 1977 for allegedly selling state secrets to the CIA at a time when Peru was receiving military aid from the Soviet Union, is the second most powerful man in the shadow of President Fujimori who governs with the help of a tiny inner circle.
www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo7/fujimori.htm   (1197 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: A Newsmaker with Pres. Fujimori -- February 3, 1997
In a newsmaker interview, Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru, discusses the status of the hostage situation at the Japanese Embassy in Lima and his recent meeting with Prime Minister Hashimoto of Japan.
President, your brother is in the embassy, and you said many times that you can't look at the situation any differently because he's there than if he weren't there, but it must be very difficult for you to have him there.
PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI: (speaking through interpreter) In no way--and I tell you this in clear cut terms because this is a totally isolated case.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/latin_america/february97/fujimori_2-3.html   (1692 words)

  
 President Bush in Peru
They have not agreed to a resumption of drug surveillance flights over Peru, which were suspended after a Peruvian military jet shot down a plane carrying US missionaries and killed 35-year-old Veronica Bowers and her daughter, Charity.
President Bush and Colin Powell are solidly behind this peace effort, which defies the Abrahamic Covenant and guarantees cursing (Genesis 12:3).
Peru is in the region of Ephraim and Manasseh in South America, but the farmers are squandering their lives under the power of Satan growing coca and poppies.
www.biblenews1.com /history2/20020323.htm   (709 words)

  
 President of Peru Visits Ancient Incan Sites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peru's new president, Alejandro Toledo, was sworn in on July 28, 2001.
Toledo is deeply concerned for the indigenous population of Peru, which has been largely overlooked by past government leaders (Toledo is in fact the first indigenous Peruvian to serve as president!).
The new president has promised to fight poverty in Peru, create 1 million jobs, double teachers' salaries in five years and cut taxes.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/headline_universe/peru.html&edu=high   (470 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Fujimori says he will run again for president in Peru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peru's ambassador to Japan said the ousted leader would be arrested the moment he returned to the South American country.
Peru's Congress has since adopted a resolution banning him from holding public office until 2010, but Fujimori has pledged before to return and seek re-election in next year's presidential ballot despite the prohibition.
Peru's ambassador to Japan, Luis Macchizello, called Fujimori's talk of running for president a "lie" because Peruvian authorities plan to arrest him.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-10-06-fujimoriperu_x.htm   (420 words)

  
 Alberto Kenya Fujimori - Japanese President of Peru
Alberto Kenya Fujimori (born July 28, 1938) was president of Peru from July 28, 1990, until November 17, 2000, when he fled to Japan as allegations of far-reaching corruption in his administration began to emerge.
Valentín Paniagua was sworn in as interim president shortly thereafter.
The former president is accused of murder in connection with the 1991 Barrios Altos massacre in which fifteen people at a barbecue in a poor neighborhood of Lima were killed by an army death squad thought to have been organized by Montesinos.
www.japan-101.com /government/alberto_kenya_fujimori.htm   (2306 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: NewsMaker: Alberto Fujimori -- September 6, 2000
Peru's President Alberto Fujimori discusses his unprecedented re-election to serve as that country's president for a third term.
PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI: I have tried to explain that in Peru there are two ways: One is the case for the leaders of terrorist movement and those who attempt with car bombing, for example; those are going before the military court, which is constitutional.
And the second one, those who are fighting ranks of terrorism, in case of Lori Berenson and some other sympathizers, it's supposed to be that they were attempting to the Peruvian congress before the Japanese assault residence, and the military court found that she was not a leader of the MRTA Movement.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec00/peru_9-6.html   (1532 words)

  
 FRONTLINE/WORLD . Venezuela - A Nation On Edge . Facts and Stats | PBS
Hugo Chavez was elected president in December 1998.
Chavez was born on July 28, 1954, in Sabaneta, a town of 20,000 inhabitants in the Andean state of Barinas.
Before being elected president of Venezuela in 1948, Rómulo Gallegos (1884-1969) was best known as the author of Doña Bárbara, the 1929 novel about life on the Venezuelan plains and the contest of civilization and barbarism.
www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/venezuela/facts.html   (1071 words)

  
 Peru --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Except for the Lake Titicaca basin in the southeast, its borders lie in sparsely populated zones.
In 2004 Peru exemplified a classic case of a less-developed country where the macro-level economic picture was bright but day-to-day political life posed enormous problems for its president, Alejandro Toledo.
The Republic of Peru is a land of contrasts: high mountains, dense rain forests, and barren deserts are all found in close proximity.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=115067   (923 words)

  
 Peru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peru was once part of the great Incan Empire and later the major vice-royalty of Spanish South America.
Peru emerged from 20 years of dictatorship in 1945 with the inauguration of President José Luis Bustamente y Rivero after the first free election in many decades.
In 2001, the centrist Alejandro Toledo was elected president with 53% of the vote, narrowly defeating former president Alan García.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107883.html   (1159 words)

  
 World News Watch: News and Statistics for Peru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peru is trying to overcome the legacy of disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori, in exile in Japan, and his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, who is...
PERU, Ind. - A soldier from northern Indiana whose wife is expecting a baby in the spring was killed in Iraq by a bomb explosion, his mother said.
LIMA, Peru (AP) - President Alejandro Toledo is scheduled to swear in a replacement for Prime Minister Beatriz Merino at noon on Monday, in the wake of a gossip...
www.world-news-watch.com /news/Peru.html   (11882 words)

  
 FOREIGN MINISTER OF PERU HOPES JAPAN WILL EXTRADITE FORMER PRESIDENT OF PERU FOR TRIAL ON VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peru, thanks to a sense of national consensus, was campaigning for democratic consolidation, and to live up to its human rights commitments and the United Nations Charter.
The massive and systematic human rights violations committed in Peru during the term of office of President Fujimori had been recognized as crimes against humanity, crimes which all States had the obligation to try and punish any individual who was guilty of such acts and to cooperate in their detention, trial and punishment.
The Government of Peru and the Government of Japan had both ratified the Convention against Torture, and one of the accusations against former President Fujimori was precisely the infliction of pain and suffering as included in the Convention.
www.unog.ch /news2/documents/newsen/cn04024e.htm   (4710 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Peru vice-president quits amid scandal
Peru's first vice-president, Raul Diez Canseco, has resigned two months after he quit his other political post as cabinet minister amid allegations of influence-peddling.
Although Peru has a second vice-president to deputise for the president, this latest news comes at a difficult time for Alejandro Toledo.
Last month, the president replaced his prime minister after allegations she too abused her government position.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3446767.stm   (238 words)

  
 Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Asia - Murder charges against ex-President of Peru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peru will officially ask the Japanese government to extradite its former President Alberto Fujimori by July.
Peru will send information to the international police organisation Interpol to back its request for his arrest on murder charges for a massacre of 15 people at a barbecue in Lima by an army death squad in 1991
Peru has a March 14 deadline to submit the information, after which Mr Fujimori, who is living in self-imposed exile in Japan, can only be detained on the charge of embezzlement.
www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNA_801222.htm   (230 words)

  
 Press Room / Speeches / Speech  by Mr. Ricardo Márquez Flores, First Vice-President of Peru and Chairman of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, President of the Republic, by Mr.
As far as Peru is concerned, we are proud to have contributed to the political stability of the sub-region and of Latin America in general, having settled the long drawn-out armed conflict with Ecuador by signing a Peace Agreement that is providing numerous opportunities for development.
That was a commitment that Peru assumed last June, in its capacity as President of the Andean Community of Nations.
www.comunidadandina.org /ingles/press/marquez24-3-00.htm   (623 words)

  
 Peru: Fujimori Immunity Vote Hailed (Human Rights Watch, 30-8-2001)
The 75-0 vote held Monday opens the door for Fujimori to be prosecuted for "disappearances" and politically motivated killings committed during his ten-year rule.
The Colina group was responsible for the 1991 massacre of fifteen people at a Lima tenement fund-raiser and the kidnapping and murder of nine students and one professor at La Cantuta University in 1992.
After leaving Peru in November 2000 in the midst of a political corruption scandal, Fujimori went to Japan where he was granted citizenship.
www.hrw.org /press/2001/08/Peru0830.htm   (340 words)

  
 The Namibian | World News | Peru seeks new president   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
LIMA - The task of deciding who should be Peru's next president fell to Congress yesterday as outgoing President Alberto Fujimori emerged from four days of seclusion in a Tokyo hotel to say he was staying in Japan for now.
Peru is effectively without a president after the resignation of scandal-plagued Fujimori and of the two deputies who are next-in-line to succeed him under the constitution.
Congress was scheduled to meet to study whether to accept Fujimori's resignation - or whether to proceed with plans put forward by some in the opposition to declare him "morally unfit" for public office.
www.namibian.com.na /2000/November/world/00B920EC21.html   (373 words)

  
 President of Peru Is Dogged by Scandals as Calls to Resign Grow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
President of Peru Is Dogged by Scandals as Calls to Resign Grow
BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Feb. 11 - Peru's president, Alejandro Toledo, is locked in the most serious crisis of his 30-month presidency, with his cabinet in turmoil and calls for his resignation growing.
Toledo, who was elected as a reformer who intended to strengthen institutions debilitated under the iron rule of President Alberto Fujimori, has been harshly criticized himself since accusations surfaced in January that a former adviser conspired with an army general on how to bribe judges investigating corruption.
www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2004/Scandals.html   (496 words)

  
 Alberto Fujimori   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Fujimori, Alberto, 1938–, president of Peru (1990–2000), b.
The son of Japanese immigrants, he was educated in Peru and attended Univ. of Wisconsin.
The unshining path: Fujimori and the ruin of Peru.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0819834.html   (616 words)

  
 Toledo Elected President of Peru
June 5, 2001) University of San Francisco graduate Alejandro Toledo, once a poor shoe shine boy, was elected Peru's new president June 3 in a close race.
The 55-year-old Toledo became the first president of Indian descent in Peru, a country with a large indigenous population.
Toledo and his centrist party Peru Posible has pledged to improve social conditions in Peru, particularly in the areas of health, education and nutrition.
www.usfca.edu /media_relations/releases/toledo.html   (510 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - NicolAs de PiErola (Peru History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
NicolAs de PiErola[nEkOlAs´ dA pyA´rOlA] Pronunciation Key, 1839–1913, president of Peru (1879–81, 1895–99).
Later he was allowed to return (1879) to take part in the war against Chile (see Pacific, War of the).
After ousting AndrEs A. CAceres in 1894, he became president again and set about the reconstruction of devastated Peru by initiating fiscal, military, religious, and civil reforms.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Pierola.html   (244 words)

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