You Cannot Negotiate Like This
The report from Minister Domingo Palermo after the third meeting last Saturday with "El Árabe" was discouraging. The "preliminary talks" are at a standstill, the interlocutor told President Alberto Fujimori and the ministers of Defense Tomás Castillo Meza, Interior Juan Briones, Justice Carlos Hermoza Moya, and Premier Alberto Pandolfi. "Let them stay there until they get tired," said one of the ministers in a joking tone. President Fujimori was not amused and decided to end the session there. In reality, he discusses the next steps with Vladimiro Montesinos and intelligence service personnel. Published February 20, 1997.