Military Braces for Inauguration Protest

Armored vehicles ringed Lima’s historic center and police stopped buses in the Andean highlands as President Alberto Fujimori worked to thwart a huge protest planned for Friday, his inauguration day. Buses carrying thousands of Peruvians headed toward the capital to take part in the series of demonstrations due to peak when Fujimori takes his oath of office. Fujimori’s inauguration will mark the beginning of his third five-year term. Alejandro Toledo, the opposition candidate who withdrew from May’s presidential runoff after accusing Fujimori of planning to rig the results, has vowed to put hundreds of thousands of protesters into the streets to disrupt the ceremony.