Fujimori plots political revival Exiled former president uses Internet to reconnect in Peru

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: February 25, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

James Brooke
International Herald Tribune
02-25-2004
The austere hotel office has a white table, white chairs and a scattering of books in French, a language he does not read. His energy is focused, though, on a thin laptop computer, with a freestanding microphone and a Web camera perched like Cyclops's eye. A blue data cable serves as a high-speed umbilical cord to Peru, 14,000 kilometers away. Alberto Fujimori is a political exile in the age of the Internet. Wielding what he calls this ''powerful instrument'' over the last year, Fujimori, former president of Peru, has parried an Interpol ...

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