Jorge Baca Campodonico This is Me

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1. 1. Go For The Gold: The Global Blame Game by Gabriela Bocagrande - The Texas Observer

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   Published on: 6/24/2006   Last Visited: 6/24/2006

   On her staff, Jorge Campodónico, former Finance Minister of Peru indicted in absentia for corruption and wanted in Lima.

2. 2. www.brettonwoodsproject.org

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   Published on: 4/14/2004   Last Visited: 7/12/2006

   Fugitive in five-star hotel, IMF foots bill --------------------------------------------------
   ------------------- For the last 18 months, Jorge Baca Campodónico has been holed up in the five-star Sheraton hotel in Buenos Aires, while his lawyers fight his extradition to Peru to face charges of high-level corruption. Campodónico was employed as a technical adviser by the IMF at the time of his arrest; he subsequently testified that the IMF knew of the charges against him when he was hired. Peruvian authorities expressed "strong discontent" with the IMF's legal and financial support for his defence. Argentine daily Clarín has reported that the Fund continues to pay his hotel bill.

3. 3. Las Américas, 4/11/2003 - The Texas Observer

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   Published on: 4/12/2003   Last Visited: 4/12/2003

   While working for Fujimori, Baca Campodónico had helped himself to millions in public funds and cooperated in the summary disposal of everyone who got in his way.
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   As a staff member of the IMF, Baca Campodónico immediately claimed diplomatic immunity, to which, like most of the other things he's got, he was not entitled.
   
   Two days later, however, he was released on bond of US$7,650, and he repaired to the Sheraton as originally planned.
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   IMF reps told La Nacion, the Buenos Aires daily newspaper, that they heard the news of the arrest with "consternation:" They described Baca Campodónico as "a man of great integrity-a jewel." But somehow, this particular Peruvian gem has a flaw or two if you look at it closely: It's been convicted in absentia of corruption, illicit association, obstruction of justice, and fraud.
   
   Interestingly, this was not the first time that Baca Campodónico was scooped up in an immigration net. It had happened before when he entered the United States in Miami last May on his way back to Washington with another IMF squad, but in that case, his diplomatic passport got him off. Nonetheless, the word is that this recent caper in Buenos Aires may be the last for him at the IMF. The Personnel Division is getting tired of springing him from assorted Departments of Justice every time he travels. In other words, compulsive larceny is quite okay with the IMF, but repeated bureaucratic inconvenience is not.
   
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   In the wake of the in absentia trials of Fujimori and Baca Campodónico, another well-known Peruvian, Mario Vargas Llosa, held forth about this "dreadful situation" at the International Freedom Foundation in Madrid, a partially-owned subsidiary of the libertarian Cato Institute.
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   So while Mr. Baca Campodónico, for whom the world has suddenly become all too real, cools his heels in Buenos Aires awaiting a free trip back to Lima, Tractebel goes about its business buying politicians, utilities, and large hunks of the national patrimony. (Currently, one of its more abhorrent activities in Peru involves shoving a natural gas pipeline through the Amazon to Bolivia. We don't even want to think about how many Jorges are lined up for a piece of that action.) And Mr. Vargas Llosa goes right on shilling for the operation, while bemoaning the lack of judgment manifest by the uncultured masses, who had the poor taste and bad manners to pitch Tractebel out of Arequipa. He's not discouraged by a couple of setbacks, and neither is Tractebel, which prides itself on "one philosophy- infinite solutions." This sounds dangerously single-minded, but the company has good reason for thinking it will get its way-it's backed up by the IMF, which has an agreement with Peru obliging the government to sell off or concession its assets as part of its program of "sound macroeconomic policy" and "decentralization." So whether Mr. Baca Campodónico is part of the party or not, the sell-off and the rip-off rolls right on.