ABC: At least 30,000 people have marched in the Peruvian capital to protest against the presidential candidacy of frontrunner Keiko Fujimori, on the anniversary of the coup d’etat staged by her father.
Shouting “Fujimori never again”, a crowd of mainly young people gathered in the central Plaza San Martin, carrying banners and a giant Peruvian flag before marching to the National Electoral Board days ahead of Sunday’s election.
Ms Fujimori’s father, Alberto Fujimori, was leader between 1990 and 2000.
He was the first Peruvian president to be convicted of corruption and crimes against humanity — for authorising death squads — in nearly a century. more
The pop-ups, browser hijacks, and redirects are beginning to become a problem again.
Meanwhile, in Japan I assume they’re protesting presidential candidate Gonzalez…?
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@Vietvet – South America is interesting! There was lots of immigration from all over the place. Argentina has a lot of Italians, Germans, and British. Brasil has a substantial ethnic Japanese population, as do most of the west coast countries. One of Chile’s national figures from its early days was named Bernardo O’Higgins (I’m not making this up).
I lived in Buenos Aires for several years when I was a boy and remember well neighborhoods where all you would hear was Italian, and all the store signs were in that language. And although the road traffic was on the right side, it was the Brits who built the railroads there, so the trains ran on the left.
@Uncle Al: Believe it or not, I already knew about O’Higgins. When I was a kid, they used to sell weird stuff in vending machines, one of which was foreign coins and currency. For a dime (I think) I got a small plastic capsule containing a folded-up Chilean 5-peso note with a picture of some guy named “B. O’Higgins” (see below). When I saw the name I was like, “Say whaaa…?”
http://www.banknotes.com/cl119.htm
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@VV – very cool!
All I know is I got more then 12 ingredients in my Chile too…