The immediate international pressure caused Gustavo Gorriti to be transferred to official detention the following day, a response that he later said probably saved his life.
12 Facts About Gustavo Gorriti
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In 2009, Fujimori was convicted by a Peruvian court for ordering the Gustavo Gorriti kidnapping, among other human rights abuses, and sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
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Gustavo Gorriti then worked for a time in the US, first as a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC and at the University of Miami's North-South Center in Miami.
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Gustavo Gorriti moved to Panama in 1996, reporting there for La Prensa.
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Gustavo Gorriti began writing again about links between government officials and drug traffickers, and again was the target of threats.
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Gustavo Gorriti alleged that some of the President Ernesto Perez Balladares' appointments were guided by nepotism, and in 1997, he gained particular notice for reporting that an agent of the cartel had contributed US$51,000 to Perez Balladares' presidential campaign.
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Gustavo Gorriti was given shelter in the Prensa offices, and the paper managed to delay his deportation through a stay by the Panamanian Supreme Court.
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Americas Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists issued statements in support of Gustavo Gorriti, as did British novelist John le Carre and Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
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The Panamanian government relented, and Gustavo Gorriti's visa was later renewed.
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In March 2001, Perez Balladares' former foreign minister, Ricardo Alberto Arias, forced out Gustavo Gorriti and was elected La Prensa's new president by a majority of shareholders.
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Gustavo Gorriti is of Basque and Italian descent through his father, being distantly related to Jose Ignacio de Gustavo Gorriti, and of Romanian Jewish descent from his mother.
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In 1986, Gustavo Gorriti was given a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, an honor awarded to mid-career journalists.