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Quito –
His name is on the board of the prestigious Harvard University in North America: Jamil Mahuad Witt (69) is a researcher in the School of Law's bargaining program.
He was a member of the late Democracy political party. Popular (DP) for which he became President of Ecuador in 1998, at the time of the threats of a new war with Peru.
He served for two years; It was overthrown by social groups after the implementation of dollarization, which caused a political and economic crisis.
Since then, he has been exiled to Boston (USA) and is a professor at this university. In 2014, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of alleged embezzlement.
Criminal proceedings are still pending before the National Court of Justice (CNJ).
The former president was the one who, along with Alberto Fujimori, former October 26, 1998, Peru signed the Brasilia law by which he renounced the war.
In a letter to THE UNIVERSE, Mahuad recounts how he experienced this process. And 20 years later, he believes that peace is "a collective creation of Latin America"
. He is currently working on two books, one on the economic crisis; and another on dollarization.
On the other hand, Fujimori (80 years old) was the first president of Peru to be convicted for human rights violations. In 2009, the court sentenced him to 25 years in prison for the murder of 25 Peruvians by a military team during the dirty war against terrorist group Sendero Luminoso.
The former president (1990-2000) was pardoned by former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski at the end of last year; but in early October, a supreme judge overturned the pardon after the victims' lawyers requested execution of the sentence before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which had ordered the Peruvian justice system to take action. badyze the validity of grace.
Fujimori He was interned in a clinic in Lima for a heart problem and still has not returned to prison.
The Popular Force Party, of his daughter Keiko Fujimori – currently detained for opening an investigation into the Odebrecht case in Peru – approved by Congress. a law that benefits seniors over the age of 75 with serious or chronic illnesses who have served one-third of their sentence. In turn, it establishes that persons convicted of terrorism, murderers, femicides, rape, aggravated drug trafficking or sentenced to life imprisonment will not be eligible for the benefit. A rule that benefits Alberto Fujimori so that he does not return to prison. However, the current president, Martín Vizcarra, vetoed this law this week.
The Congress has the opportunity to try again the legal project of accepting the veto, refusing it or insisting that it be approved. (I)
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