When he left his refuge in Japan in November and flew to Chile in a private jet, Alberto Fujimori, Peru's strongman president from 1990 to 2000, took a gamble. Although an international warrant had been issued for his arrest on charges of human-rights abuses and corruption, his advisers expected he would face no more than a brief period of house arrest in Chile. From there he planned to orchestrate a campaign to get his name on the ballot for a presidential election in April—or at least get supporters elected to Peru's Congress.
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