Ex-army general accused of murder leads mayoral race in Peru
Ex-army general accused of murder leads mayoral race in Peru
Franklin Briceno, Associated Press
Updated 12:53 pm CDT, Wednesday, October 3, 2018
LIMA, Peru (AP) — The retired army general blew kisses to supporters and promised an iron fist against criminals in Peru's massive capital city, delivering one of the trademark bombastic law-and-order speeches that have made him a leading candidate to be Lima's next mayor.
"I'll eat bad guys for breakfast," Daniel Urresti told the cheering crowd in the hardscrabble Tahuantinsuyo district in Lima, a city obsessed with crime. "And I'll have the mafia for lunch."
But Urresti himself might wind up behind bars as investigators probe his military past. On Thursday, a panel of judges will decide if the 62-year-old ex-general is guilty of killing a journalist who was murdered while covering the bloody conflict between the Peruvian state and Shining Path guerrillas more than a quarter century ago.
Urresti denies that he had anything to do with the 1988 slaying of Hugo Bustios, who wrote for the Peruvian newsmagazine Caretas. But he knows that his campaign to lead one of South America's largest cities will be over if he is found guilty.
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Daniel Urresti
So with Trump in the White House, and Bolsinaro running for the Presidency in Brazil, and this guy, Daniel Urresti, doing the same in Peru, are we to assume the sky's the limit for fascist a-holes interested in seizing power now?