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| Affiliation | Socialist Party |
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| Name | Javier Diez Canseco |
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, , Peru |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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March 24, 1948
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| Died | May 04, 2013
(65 years)
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| Contributor | 411 Name Removed |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Nov 25, 2015 04:29pm |
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| Info | Javier Diez Canseco is a member of the Peruvian Congress representing the party Partido Democrático Descentralista (PDD), of which he is a co-founder. An avowed socialist, Diez Canseco is known for his progressive politics, and he contributes regular OpEds to the center-left daily La República.
During the 1990s, Diez Canseco was a vigorous opponent of the Fujimori regime. He was also involved in investigations of human rights violations committed by both Shining Path and the Peruvian Armed Forces, and was repeatedly given death threats.
Diez Canseco was taken captive in the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima, but was released after several days. He subsequently called for a negotiated peace settlement between the government and the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement rebels.
In March 1997, Diez Canseco's car was fired upon by heavily-armed assailants wearing bullet-proof vests, but he was not riding in it at the time. The assailants took control of the vehicle, and took its occupants, Diez Canseco's chauffeur, bodyguards, and a friend of his, to an unknown location in Lima were they were interrogated and later freed. The assailants claimed they were police officers.
In 2002, Diez Canseco led a congressional inquiry into the privatization program undertaken in the 1990s by Fujimori. The committee calculated that of the USD9 billion raised during the privatization process only a small fraction ended up benefiting the state.
Diez Canseco has been critical of what he sees as the caudillismo of American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, the leading opposition party in Peru. He also denounced the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq as "neocolonialism".
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