Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Susana Higuchi


Related Topics

  
  Susana Higuchi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
'''Susana Higuchi''' (born April 26, 1950) is a member of the Peruvian Congress.
Higuchi was born in Peru of Japanese descent and was formerly married to Alberto Fujimori, who was president of Peru from 1990 until November 2000, when he resigned from office and fled to Japan as allegations of far-reaching corruption in his administration began to emerge.
As First Lady during her husband's presidency, Higuchi was one of the first people in Peru to uncover and reveal her husband's criminal misdealings.
susana-higuchi.iqnaut.net   (275 words)

  
 Arequipa Journal: An Ex-First Lady's Tough Campaign
Susana Higuchi, who as first lady became the object of international attention six years ago when she said she was being held prisoner and screamed out state secrets from a fourth-story window of the presidential palace, has now taken their domestic spat to the campaign trail.
Higuchi announced her intention to run for president against her husband in 1995, but the national electoral tribunal disqualified her.
Higuchi, she said in an interview that she had no interest in meeting other men, and that she had dedicated her life to Jesus.
partners.nytimes.com /library/world/americas/032500peru-fujimori.html   (903 words)

  
 [No title]
Higuchi not satisfied by embarrassingly mistaking between millions of yens with millions of dollars, the Congresswoman for the Frente Independiente Moralizador Party (FIM) keeps showing her continued divorce with reality.
Susana Higuchi herself experienced the explosions of the mortars a few yards away from our children’s bedrooms; she also experienced the disastrous and chilling effects of the truck bomb in Loreto Street, a mere block-and-a-half away from the government Palace.
Susana Higuchi would have been already under the scrutiny of some Investigative Commission for the crime of plotting a grave denouncement…and everything to stone Fujimori in the graveyard.
www.fujimorialberto.com /specials.php?selection=&articleId=96   (967 words)

  
 Susana Higuchi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Susana Higuchi Miyagawa (born April 26, 1950) is a Peruvian politician and engineer, better known as the former wife of ex-president of Peru Alberto Fujimori.
Higuchi married Fujimori in 1974 and divorced him in 1998.
As early as 1992, she denounced several of her Fujimori in-laws for corruption in connection with the sale of used clothing donated by Japan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Susana_Higuchi   (365 words)

  
 Arequipa Journal (The New York Times - March 25, 2000, page A4)
Higuchi sharply criticizes her former husband's governing style, she has helped him a bit lately by publicly denying recurring rumors that he has cancer and that he is not a native Peruvian but was actually born in Japan.
Higuchi said in an interview that there was "zero" chance for a reconciliation.
Higuchi called reporters in the middle of the night to complain, and she later went on a hunger strike.
www.freelori.org /news/00mar25_nytimes.html   (909 words)

  
 Peru 11.428
Susana Higuchi M. de Fujimori, requesting a hearing to explain to the Commission what she regarded as a violation of her constitutional and political rights by the Peruvian government.
Susana Higuchi de Fujimori proceeded to register the list of candidates on January 9, 1995, within the time frame established in Resolution No. 043-94/JNE, issued by the National Elections Board on December 30, 1994.
Susana Higuchi Miyagawa, the right to political participation and the right to equal protection before the law, which are guaranteed in Articles 23 and 24 of the American Convention on Human Rights.
www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/99eng/Merits/Peru11.428.htm   (7259 words)

  
 CNN.com - Peru president's former wife alleges first family tax scheme - August 15, 2000
Higuchi said the law, passed by presidential decree six days before Fujimori was sworn in to a third five-year term on July 28, was designed for Santiago Fujimori, who she described as a major used car importer.
Higuchi then tried to run against her husband in the 1995 presidential race, but Fujimori thwarted the bid, pushing through Congress a law that prevented immediate relatives of the president from seeking higher office.
Higuchi was elected this year to Congress in the April 9 elections on the opposition ticket of the Independent Moralizing Front party.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/08/15/peru.president.ap   (429 words)

  
 El No de Susana
Susana Higuchi se ha negado a hablar del asunto de la demanda de divorcio.
Susana Higushi sostuvo en más de una oportunidad que era opuesta al divorcio porque su arraigado cristianismo se lo impedía.
Susana Higuchi, desde que se agravara la situación conyugal, quizá cada vez que en el hogar las rencillas aumentaban de tono, recurrió a la oración.
www.caretas.com.pe /1371/susanas/susanas.html   (780 words)

  
 NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; September 16, 1994
In addition, Higuchi has formed her own political organization and has announced her intention to run for president, challenging the constitutionality of a new electoral law, which prohibits relatives of the president from becoming candidates.
Susana Higuchi protested, saying the law was unconstitutional, and expressed her interest in running for office (see NotiSur, 08/19/94).
On Sept. 4, Higuchi filed an injunction charging Fujimori with preventing her from seeing her four children and with "psychic and moral violence," which constitute crimes under the domestic violence law enacted by Fujimori in December 1993.
ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/notisur/h94/notisur.19940916.html   (3715 words)

  
 News & Opinion: Odds and Ends (Weekly Alibi . 01-17-00)
Susana Higuchi wants to run for a small opposition party that has accused the two-term president of dictatorial rule and civil rights abuses.
During the separation, Fujimori locked Higuchi out of the presidential home after she accused him of corruption and authoritarianism.
Higuchi attempted to run against her husband in the 1995 elections but failed when Fujimori's ruling party in Congress passed a law preventing presidential family members from running for office.
weeklywire.com /ww/01-17-00/alibi_oddsends.html   (662 words)

  
 americas.org - Torture Victims Speak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
La Rosa testified that while working for the state intelligence agency she saw Susana Higuchi Miyagawa, Fujimori’s ex-wife, in a cell, naked, crying, and apparently having been tortured.
Higuchi separated from Fujimori in the mid-1990s, after publicly criticizing his government.
Higuchi, now a congressperson for the Independent Moralizing Front (FIM) party, said February 22 that she had been tortured more than 500 times under her husband’s regime.
www.americas.org /item_10399   (201 words)

  
 agenciaperu.com | ACTUALIDAD | Susana Higuchi renuncia al FIM
Higuchi se aleja del FIM por la "dictadura congresal".
La congresista Susana Higuchi confirmó hoy su renuncia al Frente Independiente Moralizador (FIM), alegando sentirse inconforme con la "dictadura congresal" que impera en el interior de la agrupación política.
Susana Higuchi aseguró además que en el FIM, partido político que lidera el actual ministro de Justicia, Fernando Olivera, "no importa la opinión de las personas, a pesar de que el FIM hizo un gran esfuerzo para reforzar la gobernabilidad del país".
www.agenciaperu.com /actualidad/2002/jul/higuchi.htm   (284 words)

  
 americas.org - Survivors Detail Torture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
La Rosa covered Higuchi with her jacket—an act for which the agent was later reportedly punished.
Higuchi, now a congressperson for the Independent Moralizing Front (FIM) party, had revealed earlier on February 22 that she had been tortured more than 500 times under her husband’s regime.
Higuchi also said that more recently, during a visit to the Callao Naval Base, where Fujimori’s former intelligence adviser Vladimiro Montesinos Torres is imprisoned, Montesinos apologized to her for the tortures, and said they had been ordered from above.
www.americas.org /item_7554   (436 words)

  
 Fujimori por Susana Higuchi [Voltaire]
Susana fue la última de los cuatro hijos de los Higuchi Miyagawa, una "Shizuco" de carácter inquieto que contradecía el significado de su nombre, "tranquilidad".
Susana ejercía su profesión en Construcciones Fuji, la empresa que creó a poco de casarse en 1974, dedicada a edificar y vender casas familiares.
Para Susana fueron tiempos de gran armonía y esfuerzo conjunto, "Alberto era muy tierno, un marido ejemplar, muy cariñoso y condescendiente, aunque extremadamente celoso, por esa época lo compartíamos todo, incluso corregíamos exámenes juntos hasta las 3 de la mañana metidos en la cama".
www.voltairenet.org /article120116.html   (864 words)

  
 Relatives come to Fujimori's defense   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In addition, the Fujimori family's official family tree, kept in Japan, shows Mutsue and Naoichi Fujimori's first son, Alberto, was born in Peru, Japanese historian Toshio Yanaguida said.
Also coming to Fujimori's defense was his estranged former wife, Susana Higuchi -- considered a reliable source because she would have little reason to want to save her husband's political career after their messy divorce last year.
Higuchi said that during her 21-year marriage to Fujimori she had never heard anything suggesting he was born in Japan.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/08/12/peru-fujimori.2-0.html   (366 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Fujimori's Ex-Wife Says He Ordered Her Killed - U.S. & World
Alberto Bautista, lawyer and adviser to Congresswoman Susana Higuchi, said they visited Vladimiro Montesinos at his request Friday at the naval prison where he is being held on dozens of charges ranging from narcotics trafficking to directing a paramilitary death squad.
Higuchi has accused Montesinos, who was captured last month in Venezuela, of driving a wedge between her family, holding her captive and ordering his agents to torture her.
Fujimori stripped Higuchi of the title of first lady in 1994 after she accused him of tolerating widespread corruption in his administration.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,30806,00.html   (626 words)

  
 Former Peruvian agent backs Fujimori's ex-wife on torture allegations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Higuchi has alleged in the past that she was tortured by Montesinos' agents under
Higuchi visited Montesinos in July at the prison where he is being held on dozens of
Higuchi said the spymaster asked her forgiveness for what he had done to her.
www.latinamericanstudies.org /peru/higuchi.htm   (361 words)

  
 NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; October 14, 1994
Although Higuchi insisted that the law is unconstitutional, the Peruvian Congress refused to overturn it and the courts have not yet begun hearings on the petition challenging it.
Higuchi had announced her decision to run for president in August, after an increasingly public dispute with her husband that culminated in Fujimori stripping her of her title and duties as first lady.
She has said that unemployment, poverty, and corruption are the greatest problems facing Peru and she accused her husband's administration of being indifferent to the hunger that exists in the country.
ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/notisur/h94/notisur.19941014.html   (3951 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | Fujimori pursued by ex-wife over debts
The court ruled in favour of an appeal by Susana Higuchi, who is now a member of Congress, against previous judicial decisions that prevented her from pursuing the debt.
Mrs Higuchi claims she lent her husband the money to fund his election campaign in 1990.
The couple divorced six years ago after Mrs Higuchi moved out of the presidential palace and began publically to criticise her husband's administration.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1253902.stm   (172 words)

  
 :: EsMas :: Fujimori intentó asesinar a Alan García: Susana Higuchi
Susana Higuchi, ex esposa del ex presidente Alberto Fujimori.
LIMA, Perú, sep. 19, 2001 (AFP).- La ex Primera Dama de Perú y actual congresista, Susana Higuchi, denunció este miércoles a su ex esposo, el destituido presidente Alberto Fujimori, de haber dado una orden para asesinar al ex presidente Alan García cuando protagonizó el autogolpe de Estado del 5 de abril de 1992.
Higuchi, integrante del Frente Independiente Moralizador (FIM), reveló que cuando era Primera Dama de Perú escuchó una conversación en la sede del Servicio de Inteligencia del Ejército, en la que se hablaba de los planes de dar muerte a García al momento de consumarse el autogolpe.
www.esmas.com /noticierostelevisa/internacionales/140058.html   (240 words)

  
 CNN - Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1994, Fujimori stripped his wife, Susana Higuchi, of the title of first lady, saying in a nationally televised address that Higuchi was disloyal and "unstable and easily influenced" by his political rivals.
Higuchi then tried to run against her husband in the 1995 presidential race.
But Fujimori stopped the bid, pushing through Congress a law that prevented immediate relatives of the president from seeking higher office.
www.cnn.com /interactive/world/0009/fujimori.timeline/04.html   (67 words)

  
 Susana Higuchi - member of the Peruvian Congress
Susana Higuchi - member of the Peruvian Congress
Susana Higuchi is a member of the Peruvian Congress.
Higuchi was born in Peru of Japanese descent and was formerly married to Alberto Fujimori, who was president of Peru from 1990 until November 2000, when he fled to Japan as allegations of far-reaching corruption in his administration began to emerge.
www.japan-101.com /government/susana_higuchi.htm   (387 words)

  
 CNN.com - Peru launches probe into money laundering by ex-spy chief - November 3, 2000
The agreement came after Fujimori -- under OAS pressure -- dropped a demand that new elections be conditioned on a sweeping amnesty for human rights abuses that would have covered the military and Montesinos.
Opposition congresswoman Susana Higuchi, Fujimori's ex-wife, said the revelation of the Swiss bank accounts was further evidence that the president had placed too much trust in his intelligence adviser.
In 1994, Higuchi publicly criticized her husband, declaring that his government was corrupt and that Fujimori and Montesinos were leading Peru astray.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/11/03/peru.ap/index.html   (648 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | 11 presidential candidates in Peru
In a separate move, Mr Fujimori's ex-wife, Susana Higuchi, has registered as a candidate for the country's congress.
Mrs Higuchi, who will stand for the Independent Moralising Front, said she would fight to honour the promises her ex-husband made when he was elected ten years ago.
During their divorce, Mr Fujimori locked his wife out of the presidential palace and his supporters in congress passed a law preventing her from standing for public office.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/598071.stm   (169 words)

  
 Esto ya no es El Útero : Susana Higuchi: "No estaba TAN loca"
A raíz de estos hallazgos, hace dos días la ex esposa de Fujimori, Susana Higuchi, recordó a la agencia oficial Andina que en 1992 ella había denunciado las irregularidades de las donaciones japonesas.
Una vez más, los desnaturalizados engendros Fujimori Higuchi abandonan a su difamada-traicionada-secuestrada-torturada-humillada madre: El Chino le quitó a sus hijos durante diez años.
Las torturas que sufrió Susana Higuchi configuran uno de los cuadernos de extradición que la Corte Suprema ha enviado al Ministerio Público.
ocram.perublogs.com /2005/12/Susana-Higuchi----No-estaba-TAN-loc.html   (361 words)

  
 RPP Noticias - Susana Higuchi cambia de camiseta
Higuchi afirma que aún no ha decidido si postulará a la reelección congresal.
(RPP Noticias) La congresista Susana Higuchi, ex esposa del ex presidente Alberto Fujimori, confirmó su incorporación a la bancada parlamentaria de Perú Ahora para la próxima legislatura, luego de pertenecer al GPDI, pero aclaró que lo hacía en calidad de independiente y sin pedir nada a cambio.
Susana Higuchi fue elegida congresista por el co-gobernante Frente Independiente Moralizador (FIM), partido que abandonó para pasar al GPDI.
www.rpp.com.pe /portada/politica/6937_1.php?font=2   (324 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Former First Lady Susana Higuchi hopes to run as a presidential or
Fujimori filed for divorce after locking Higuchi out of the palace when she
Higuchi on an opposing ticket would be a thorn in Fujimori's side because of
www.latinamericanstudies.org /peru/susana.htm   (249 words)

  
 The Fall Of Fujimori at Laemmle Theatres
Director Ellen Perry will attend the 7:20 screening at the Grande on May 5 and 6 and Sunday May 7 after the 1:15 show participate in Q&As afterwards.
Alberto Fujimori, Keiko Fujimori, Susana Higuchi, Vladimiro Montesinos, Gustavo Goritti" >
Cast : Alberto Fujimori, Keiko Fujimori, Susana Higuchi, Vladimiro Montesinos, Gustavo Goritti
www.laemmle.com /viewmovie.php?mid=2089   (158 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.