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...crimes were the deportation of thousands of Jews and the torturing to death of several hundred Maquis, including Resistance Leader Jean Moulin. A French military court sentenced him to death in absentia in 1954. Four years earlier, however, Klaus Altmann had migrated from Berlin to Italy to Bolivia, where he went into business and acquired Bolivian citizenship...
...demonstrations, circulated photographs and generally made such a fuss that she finally got a letter from a German in Lima, Peru, saying he had seen Barbie there under the name of Altmann. That prompted the French to ask for his extradition. Before the request reached Lima, Altmann retreated to Bolivia, which has no extradition treaty with France. The French nonetheless sent another request...
...that name and has received mail from the Barbie family in Germany. But he is a Bolivian citizen who claims that he has broken no Bolivian law. The French argue, however, that the fugitive acquired Bolivian citizenship by fraud and that despite the lack of an extradition treaty, Bolivia must honor its World War II pledges of joint Allied action against war criminals. There is yet another possibility: Bolivia has an extradition treaty with Peru, which wants Altmann for gold smuggling, and Peru has an extradition treaty with France...
...There will be a great deal of procedure," says Beate Klarsfeld. "And it will be a long time, if ever, before Barbie gets extradited. There probably aren't any other Nazi war criminals like Barbie hiding in Bolivia or Peru today because they do not have to. The top Gestapo official for all of France, Kurt Lischka, lives openly as a respectable citizen in West Germany today...
...armed forces also got Bordaberry's pledge to carry out 19 specific political and economic reforms, including a redistribution of income, land reform, elimination of foreign debt, a war on inflation and a crackdown on political corruption. Unlike the right-wing juntas that have assumed power in Bolivia and Brazil, or the nationalist, left-wing military regimes in Peru and Panama, Uruguay's new leaders seem almost apolitical. Although vociferously anti-Marxist, they describe their aims in naively chivalrous and even quixotic phrases-like serving as "watchdogs of patriotism, austerity, disinterest, generosity, honor and firmness of character...