PERU: FEARS GROW ABOUT PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI'S DECISION TO CALL ELECTIONS IN PERU

Record ID: 974128

  • Title: PERU: FEARS GROW ABOUT PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI'S DECISION TO CALL ELECTIONS IN PERU
  • Date: 19th September 2000
  • Summary: LIMA, PERU (SEPTEMBER 19, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF MILITARY BASE CALLED "LAS PALMAS" WHERE VLADIMIRO MONTESINOS IS ALLEGEDLY DETAINED (AT NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE UNIT) (4 SHOTS) 0.27 2. MV FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ALEJANDRO TOLEDO WITH HIS ADVISORS 0.35 3. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOLEDO SAYING: "In the next hours there [will] still be increasing tension, I think we are not getting to deal with all the issues such as the general elections and the non-participation of President Fujimori. We will not deal with that because the Montesinos' issue has not been solved." 0.56 4. CA MEDIA CENTRE 0.58 5. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOLEDO SAYING: "We don't know where either Montesinos or Fujimori are. We don't know where the armed forces are because I am sure they are meeting somewhere in Lima. We need to bring news because people are getting angry." 1.17 6. EXT OAS/ SECURITY OUTSIDE (2 SHOTS) 1.27 LIMA, PERU (SEPTEMBER 19, 2000) (REUTERS) 7. EXTERIOR OF HOTEL WHERE NEWS CONFERENCE BY OPPOSITION CONGRESSMAN FERNANDO OLIVERA WAS HELD 1.32 8. OLIVERA ARRIVING AT NEWS CONFERENCE 1.37 9. MEDIA 1.39 10. SCU (SOUDNBITE) (Spanish) OLIVERA SAYING: "Montesinos with his impunity machine controlling the judicial power could buy his innocence. He could do it with that as well as with his disinformation power under which he controls the media. Montesinos told me that if I showed more evidence of his videos, he would go ahead and conduct a bloody military coup." 10. MEDIA 2.15 11. CA MEDIA 2.18 12. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) OLIVERA SAYING: "Fujimori should exercise his power as the head of the armed forces by detaining Montesinos and if he cannot do it, let the military detain him." 2.41 13. END OF NEWS CONFERENCE 2.45 14. VARIOUS OF LIMA STREETS WITH CONCERNED CITIZENS (3 SHOTS) 2.56 15. VARIOUS OF MONEY EXCHANGE WORKERS 3.06 16. SCU (SOUNDITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED MONEY EXCHANGE STREET WORKER SAYING: "Basically with the ongoing stress, the dollar is unstable. It has gone up in one day from 3.45 to 3.49." 3.15 17. VARIOUS OF CITY 3.18 LIMA, PERU (FILE) (REUTERS) 18. MV VLADIMIRO MONTESINOS IN EARLIER MEETING REGARDING ARMS SELL TO COLOMBIA BY JORDAN 3.28 LIMA, PERU (SEPTEMBER 19, 2000) (CH5 - NO ACCESS PERU/INTERNET) 19. VARIOUS OF MOTORCADE LEAVING PERUVIAN PRESIDENTIAL PALACE 3.45 20. TRAVEL MOTORCADE RACING ON HIGHWAY 3.54 LIMA, PERU (SEPTEMBER 19, 2000) (REUTERS) 21. EXTERIOR OF ARMY HEADQUARTERS 3.57 22. TRAVEL MOTORCADE RETURNING TO PALACE 4.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: LIMA, PERU
  • Country: Peru
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