Cajamarca’s Finest: Singlespeeding the Andes

Let’s get this out of the way: Former Peruvian Presidents and coup enthusiasts Alberto Fujimori and Pedro Castillo are being held in the same prison. 

Fujimori the Elder, which is how I will refer to him in this post to distinguish him from his more currently relevant daughter Keiko, is a Japanese-Peruvian South American dictator archetype, responsible for some 300k forced sterilizations of native Peruvians during his time as leader of the country in the 90’s. In 1992, when the national congress wouldn’t follow his wishes, he rolled the tanks to the steps of the capitol, told them to get out, and installed his own loyalists, resulting in things like, well, forced sterilizations. He has been in and out of some combination of prison/exile/on trial for going on 25 years.

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