Stacey Powers , News director at WTNP radio in Tampa and former police officer. Such a move could thwart Fujimori's plans for his second vice president, Ricardo Marquez, to take over until early elections in April, and possibly allow the opposition to take over the presidency in a transitional government. Today, a conversation with Rhoda Berenson, mother of American political prisoner Lori Berenson, who has been in a Peruvian prison since November of 1995 and given a life sentence on charges of treason to the fatherland after being tried by a hooded military court. Recently Peru vacated the sentence and she faces a second trial, this time in a civilian court. The demonstrators were countering a fascist rally that praised Franco's leadership of Spain when police began to club them with batons and shoot rubber bullets.
Demonstrators say that the police also fired live ammunition as warning shots.
Forty people were injured and seven were arrested. Franco ruled Spain with an iron fist after unleashing one of the continent's most bitter civil wars. In 1936, he led a revolt against the democratically-elected Republican government, sparking the Spanish Civil War in which over half a million people were killed. Andrea Comas , freelance photographer who was covering the demonstration for Reuters. Speaking from Madrid.