In April 2000, Peru’s President Alberto Fujimori said he was confident that he would win a third term in office despite what he called an “international conspiracy” to undermine his campaign with accusations of election fraud. The highly popular president had good reason for confidence. He ended up winning that election by a 10 percent margin, what is often called a “landslide” in U.S. political races. It turned out, however, that his concern about an “international conspiracy” had merit. His concern in this matter was not paranoid fancy, à la Hillary Clinton’s “vast right-wing conspiracy.” There was indeed a conspiracy out to get him, and get him it did. By causing economic instability, stirring up revolutionary violence, utilizing bribery and illegal campaign contributions, and creating an international clamor over alleged vote fraud, this conspiracy drove Fujimori from office and forced him to flee the country, to be replaced by Alejandro Toledo, a “reformed” radical Marxist.

Joining Señor Toledo, as new commissars in South America, are fellow Marxists Fernando de la Rua (Argentina), Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), and Luis Lula da Silva (Brazil). All have been raised to power by the same conspiracy identified by Mr. Fujimori. Together with Fidel Castro, these leaders are taking Latin America back into the revolutionary turmoil of the Soviet era. The same conspiracy sovietizing our neighbors to the south has also been replicating this subversive process in other parts of the world. In Peru’s case, however, we have one of the most blatant, textbook examples of this conspiracy in action, with the major players plainly visible and damning evidence publicly available to a degree rarely seen elsewhere.

“Fujimori Must Go!”

• Alejandro Toledo Manrique, a Marxist “progressive” educated in the U.S., was quickly established by the CFR opinion cartel as Peru’s “reform” candidate and popular “man of the people.” But Toledo had no popular base; he had served the international community for his entire career, working for the UN, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Labor Organization, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He also had been an economic adviser to President Garcia’s disastrous and discredited regime.
  
• Billionaire currency speculator George Soros came to the rescue, providing Toledo with $1 million under the table. After first denying the illegal payoff, Soros was forced to admit to the crime, but he was never prosecuted for it. With the Soros funds, Toledo organized an escalating campaign of violence, culminating in deadly riots (which Toledo personally led) that precipitated financial panic. Soros benefited handsomely from this, as the Peruvian currency, the Sol, plunged on cue. This was a repeat of Soros’ role in helping to arrange currency collapses in Indonesia and Thailand.
  
• Soros (a CFR member, his Soros Management Fund is a CFR Corporate Member) also set up further financial arrangements with Toledo’s wife, Elaine Karp, a former top executive at the World Bank and USAID. He introduced Toledo to Insider circles in Washington and Europe: the CFR; the World Economic Forum; Freedom House; and Human Rights Watch (which is heavily funded by Soros). Toledo signed on to the Declaration for World Democracy (i.e., world government) sponsored by the World Citizen Foundation.
  
• The Carter Center, led by Jimmy Carter (CFR), along with other left-wing, international election monitors, converged on Peru. Without producing any evidence to support their accusations, they proclaimed the election process corrupt. The Carter Center has monitored dozens of elections worldwide, mostly under the direction of Robert A. Pastor (CFR), a militant leftist long associated with the KGB-connected Institute for Policy Studies. Pastor supported the Communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua and helped formulate President Carter’s disastrous foreign policy in Latin America. The Carter Center is hardly an unbiased source. Ditto for the National Democratic Institute (NDI), which joined the Carter Center in subverting Peru’s elections. Directors and advisers at NDI include Madeleine Albright, Mario Cuomo, Christopher Dodd, Stephen Solarz, and Andrew Young (all CFR). Rounding out this effort was Freedom House, led by Bill Richardson (CFR), a former U.S. ambassador to the UN and Energy Secretary under Bill Clinton.
  
• The CFR media cartel took up the corruption theme, citing as evidence the charges leveled by the Carter-NDI-FH radicals. The UN Human Rights Committee also chimed in. President Clinton (CFR) pressured the Organization of American States to reverse its position on the validity of Peru’s election process. Yielding to the U.S. pressure, the OAS flip-flopped.
  
• The Socialist International, the worldwide organization of Marxist political parties, supported Toledo and featured an article by him in their journal, Socialist Affairs.
  
• Javier Solana, a radical socialist who served as secretary-general of NATO before going on to be foreign and defense policy coordinator for the European Union, rallied EU officials to condemn Fujimori and support Toledo.
  
• Even with all these forces aligned against him, polls showed Fujimori leading by as much as 20 points. Toledo, on the other hand, showed badly in a number of media appearances, offending many voters with crude and vulgar comments, and demonstrating his ignorance of many important domestic issues. Toledo’s handlers, realizing that an upcoming debate with Fujimori could finish their candidate off, had Toledo drop out of the race in May 2000 and cry foul.
  
• In June 2000, Soros took Toledo to Warsaw, Poland, to address the World Forum on Democracy, sponsored by Freedom House and funded by Soros and USAID. Soros shared the stage with Toledo, also joined by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (CFR), UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and dozens of other international Insiders.
  
• Former UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, a Peruvian still active within the UN, as well as being active with the Gorbachev Foundation and Soros’ drug legalization lobby, joined the pro-Toledo forces. In November 2000, Fujimori finally gave way to the escalating tactics of the international lynch mob and took refuge in his ancestral Japan. Perez de Cuellar became interim Prime Minister — until Toledo could be legitimized with a sham election in 2001.
  
• In November 2002, World Bank President James Wolfensohn (CFR) visited Peru to lavish praise and funding on the favored Toledo regime. He announced that Peru would be receiving $920 million over the next four years, and possibly as much as $1.6 billion.