Guzman not tortured? Seems unlikely!

["Matt D." <afn02065@xxxxxxx>]

Chris B. writes:

>But if fact he may have talked
>
>a) through an incorrect estimate of the balance of forces, as a result of
>psychological pressure. It is unlikely that the regime would have directly
>tortured him because of his leading position, but they could have put him
>under various other severe forms of pressure.

I don't understand this at all.  While certainly it is easy to imagine dis-
agreements among the Peruvian security forces over when and how
to kill Presidente Gonzalo -- we can see this is his transfer among
agencies in the hours and days after his capture -- I'd be hard pressed
to identify a single player in Fujimori's rotten state that would hesitate
for a *second* to use the most brutal and vicious torture, psychological,
pharmacological, and good old-fashioned physical, on him.

Why do you think his "leading position" would spare him from this
*routine* treatment?  Or do you think he and Alberto hang out,
smoke cigars, play chess, chat "man-to-man" about the Peruvian
situation?

Was the Speech from the Cage -- the *only* uncontested communication
>from Gonzalo since his capture -- the speech of a man looking forward
to joining his captors at the gaming table?

This is Abimael Guzman we're talking about, after all... Not Don Adolpho.

-- Matt D.



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