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Subject: Colombia,Peru Updates 12/27/92
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Subject: Colombia,Peru Updates 12/27/92
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            Weekly News Update #152, December 27, 1992


ARRESTED COLOMBIAN REBEL LEADER CHARGES ABUSE

National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla leader Francisco Galan,
who was arrested on Dec. 3, has charged that he was drugged and
raped by army interrogators after refusing to give information on
other guerrilla leaders. Army officers denied the accusations and
added that a member of the attorney general's office was present
at all times during Galan's arrest. Attorney General Gustavo Leon
de Greiff confirmed the presence of a member of his staff in the
process and assured that everything was done legally. Days
earlier, the government had presented the media with a medical
report which said that when he was arrested, Galan showed signs
of "drug addiction and sexual assult." [ED-LP 12/24/92 from
Notimex]
 
In other news, the Colombian government has increased the
country's minimum salary by 25%. Starting Jan. 1 the minimum
monthly salary will be 81,510 pesos ($116)--the amount suggested
by the business sector. Labor unions had suggested a 29%
increase. [ED-LP 12/24/92 from AP]
 

PERUVIAN GOVERNING COALITION QUITS CUSCO ELECTIONS

Peru's ruling New Majority-Change 90 coalition has decided to
pull its candidates for mayor from the elections in the Andean
region of El Cusco. Coalition representative Juan Heysen Acosta
presented a written petition to pull out of the race. Secretary
of the electoral jury Felipe Perez Ceballos said that the 
decision on this highly unusual occurrence would be made public
on Dec. 25. According to polls, current Cusco mayor Daniel
Estrada will receive 70% of the vote to win a third term of
office. Estrada, a member of the United Alliance of the Left, is
running as a candidate of the United Front (FU), a coalition
formed from the fragmented Peruvian left. The candidates of the
FU have their biggest backing in Cusco's 13 provinces and 106
districts. In other election news, the electoral jury of Lima
province approved 100 lists of candidates for 43 districts for
the capital. There are 42 candidates running for mayor of Lima.
[ED-LP 12/24/92 from Notimex]
 
Meanwhile, rebels of the Maoist Peruvian Communist Party (PCP,
also known as Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path) exploded car
bombs on Dec. 26 near the Chinese, Costa Rican and Austrian
embassies in Lima, causing damage but no injuries, according to
police and embassy officials. [NYT 12/27/92 from Reuters]


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