Ex-Peruvian foreign minister under arrest in Miami

[Judi Lynn]

Ex-Peruvian foreign minister under arrest in Miami
Posted: 13 November 2009 0932 hrs

MIAMI: Peru's ex-foreign minister August Blacker-Miller, on the run since 2005, was arrested in Miami for allegedly breaking immigration laws, a US official said as Lima announced it will request his extradition to stand trial.

"Blacker-Miller was arrested on Monday... by ICE special agents for being in violation of US immigration law," said an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who requested anonymity. He said the Peruvian faces deportation proceedings.

Peru's Interior Minister Octavio Salazar on Wednesday announced the arrest and said Lima would at once lodge an extradition request with US authorities.

Blacker-Miller was foreign minister under former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) and is held partly accountable for Fujimori's so-called "autogolpe", or self-styled coup in 1992, when with military backing he dissolved Congress, sacked several top judges and jailed leading opponents.

The former top diplomat was declared in contempt of court in October 2005 for failing to appear at a trial of former Fujimori cabinet members involved in the 1992 power move.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1017908/1/.html

Edited to add photo:

http://www.congreso.gob.pe.nyud.net:8090/fotografia/2001/010504_02b.jpg

Augosto Blacker-Miller

[Judi Lynn]

1. He's mentioned briefly in this article which contains something very wierd....

I've never heard of this event.

Just found it looking for information on Augusto Blacker-Miller. I do not believe this story ran here, although it involved a U.S. plane:

U.S. Says a C-130 Was Hit by Gunfire From Peru
By NATHANIEL C. NASH,
Published: Saturday, April 25, 1992

An unarmed American military transport plane, flying on a routine counter-drug mission off the northern coast of Peru, was fired on by a Peruvian Air Force plane this afternoon, a spokesman for the American Embassy said this evening.

One crew member was missing, reportedly falling out of the plane when a door on the C-130 transport plane was blown open by the machine-gun fire from the Peruvian aircraft. Two other crew members were reported wounded, one superficially.

The C-130 managed to land at an air strip in Talara in the northern coast of Peru near the Ecuadoran border, said the spokeman, Donald R. Hamilton.

Mr. Hamilton said the American Ambassador, Anthony C. E. Quainton, had called President Alberto K. Fujimori about the incident and expressed "alarm and concern."

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/25/world/us-says-a-c-130-was-hit-by-gunfire-from-peru.html