Popular Peru ex-minister charged in killing of journalist

A retired army general widely seen as a possible presidential candidate has been formally charged with murdering a prominent journalist 26 years ago during the country’s internal conflict, a prosecutor announced.

March 02, 2015

Khalid Al-Suliman

 

 

LIMA — A retired army general widely seen as a possible presidential candidate has been formally charged with murdering a prominent journalist 26 years ago during the country’s internal conflict, a prosecutor announced. Luis Landa said in interviews published on Sunday by three newspapers that he is seeking a 25-year prison term for former Interior Minister Daniel Urresti based on evidence that, as local army intelligence chief at the time, he was responsible for the murder of Hugo Bustios. Bustios was a correspondent for the national magazine Caretas in the highland town of Huanta, the epicenter of a brutal dirty war with leftist Shining Path rebels. He was shot and then finished off with a grenade in November 1988 while investigating rights abuses, which were committed by both sides. — AP

March 02, 2015
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