It was only four months ago (October 2016) that I wrote again about former President Fujimori (“ From Duterte to Fujimori: Reflections ”) remembering, insisting, urging for justice and recognition. I have been presenting and repeating the reasons since the day they opened that tangled and murky judicial process to attribute guilt that they were unable to substantiate and that were finally reduced to legal rhetoric. The concrete thing is that they still managed to imprison him for 25 years as if he were a criminal, knowing that a man of that size, shackled and gagged, could not bear it. In short, a miserable achievement to boast of redeemers again after doing “justice.” Then, rushes to regain the reins of power in order to repair what was damaged by Fujimori, while in the whitewashed dungeons a slow murder began without the need to directly put one's hands in.
Why my insistence? A) Basically because I am a Nikkei with an old Japanese surname like that of Fujimori, enriched with blood genetics and ancient culture and B) Because the Nikkei condition impels us to fight in defense of Morals and Justice in which Japanese collectivism is founded, making it almost impossible for the cry of “J'accuse” that Emile Zola launched in the Dreyfus case to be silenced in the face of immorality and injustice. C) Because at this very moment a tainted innocent must recover his rights to justice and life.
In fact, I could never doubt the rectitude of his governmental conduct. Perhaps difficult to understand due to his introversion and laconicism (typical of a Japanese) and his upright even though harsh behavior (typical of a samurai). And with these unusual but powerful weapons, they will be able to positively redirect the destiny of their people, subjected to misery for too many decades. Hence the hatred and thirst for revenge cultivated within those powerful people who were trampled without regard. (While in compensation he received the affectionate recognition of “Chinito” by his Voiceless People).
Then came the unstoppable onslaught of revenge long plotted by that group of figureheads, hitmen, coca lords and politicians: A) Due to their lack of resources to be able to completely sweep away so much concerted filth. B) Because of his inability to get rid of that stone guest who, from the very spheres of the presidential palace, created his own organization of corruption, espionage, death and fear (everyone knows his name and story). C) Because of his inability to find in Japan the necessary answers to destroy the thick web with which he was being immobilized. D) For his voluntary return to Peru to cleanse his Honor stained with thousands of lies compiled from so many histories of corruption. (“Meiyo” honor: a concept with scope that is almost impossible to measure in current Western culture). E) Due to the presence of the known criminal now enthroned and transformed into a key witness in the incriminating trial.
But is it all over again? NO. This time not because part of the press in my country as well as the internet and also the Peruvian press (“La República”, “Perú 21”) have been delivering news about this CORRUPTION on a chain uncovered in Peru. And for us this revelation has become tremendously decisive because it begins, precisely, when Fujimori is displaced from the presidential chair... And by then, who ended up earning the right to the Pizarro Palace? None other than Alejandro Toledo, the anti-corruption champion who proclaimed Fujimori's sins from the rooftops and promised to put Peru back on the right track of true democracy and transparency (2001-2006). But, unfortunately for them, with the 21st century an unstoppable thirst awoke in our America to put a stop to the libertine behavior of the dominant groups, demanding that they clarify their public procedures. (In Chile, corruption trials are the order of the day)... The issue is that in the face of accomplished and proven facts, he was declared a prisoner by the Attorney General's Office while Interpol searches for him halfway around the world after disappearing from his country. At the same time, the Peruvian government offers a reward of 100,000 soles for “timely and truthful information” while the current president in office publicly states: “El Cholo must return to Peru to face justice”… (One can imagine the stampede that all this is causing).
What he is acussed?. . Specifically receiving a $20 million bribe. (The present investigation and prosecution only considers this illegal act. It does not mean that there are not also them on other fronts of the government.) These are monies given by the Brazilian Construction Company Odebrecht to ensure the construction of a couple of sections of the interoceanic highway with an award of 1,185 million dollars but, with a final cost of 2,346 million dollars (according to the Comptroller's Office - Double its original award).
In the official statements that this construction company had to make before the US Justice Department, it indicates that it delivered 29 million dollars in bribes to the Peruvian governments in power between 2005 and 2014. This allowed it to profit extra 143 million.
Now - reflecting - if Odebrecht bribed these governments with 29 million dollars for ten years and Toledo received 20 million (specifically in 2005), in whose hands were the other 9 million?... This is also part of the anti-corruption investigation that looks in depth at the government of the period 2006-2011 that gave this construction company 6 projects. And about the 2011-2016 government that awarded 7 projects with one currently paralyzed when this pot of unhealthy odors was uncovered.
Could there be so much concerted lies floating in the air that the People easily forget the immediate past of corruption and its disastrous effects on their modest ways of life? But not everyone accepts oblivion. (For this there is the valuable compilation of the topic “History of Corruption in Peru” by the notable Peruvian historian Alfonso Quiroz who reviews in 500 pages this scourge that began in the Colony. (How many pages would we fill on the same topic here in Chile?)
Because this should be the moment when the People demand the freedom and justice that corresponds to Alberto Fujimori. Precisely because he is the man who thought with nobility and high vision and who did not hesitate in an almost insane daring to confront that immense machine of untouched corruption.
I really hope that the stubborn and courageous Keiko Fujimori (like her father) can fully free her hands and, surrounded by crowds, raise her voice from all the stands against her rivals covered in splashes. (To say the least). Because his father, that extraordinary man, very urgently needs the public restitution of his Honor that he came expressly to put on high. ¨For the rest, any honest observer can visualize reality at this moment and know that he has been deceived, just as he can make comparisons and appreciate the enormous differences and distances that separate this alleged culprit from the exposed dirt of his forgers.
© 2017 Ariel Takeda
