They tell people who to vote for. They say lead is going to fly if their candidate doesn't win. Bitter Divisions Among Peru's Rulers Fujimori's guns are mainly pointed at the revolutionaries and the masses of people. On December 18, in Peru's central Amazon district, the army opened fire on the presidential campaign convoy of the Popular Action Party. A week earlier national police shot and killed Circo Fernandez, the head of APRA party, while he was campaigning in northern Peru.
Peruvian laws prohibit the armed forces from participating in any way in elections.
SIN is headed by Vladimir Montesinos, the long-time CIA agent who some consider the man actually running the show within the Fujimori regime. Fujimori has even intrigued to prevent Susana Higuchi, his wife, from running for president. Higuchi come from a rich Peruvian family and her group is backed mainly by retired police and military. Fujimori responded by pushing through a law prohibiting any of his relatives from running for office. Some of Fujimori's bourgeois opponents warn of the possibility that the generals may step in and make sure Fujimori wins.