Peru ex-spy chief convicted in gunrunning for FARC
A Peruvian court sentenced widely despised former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos on Thursday to 20 years in prison for the illegal sale of arms to a Colombian leftist rebel group in the late 1990s. The sentence, Montesinos’ longest yet, is concurrent with a 15-year jail term he is serving for bribing the media during President Alberto Fujimori’s 1990-2000 government, which ended amid corruption scandals and charges of human rights abuses. Full Story