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(11 Jan 2001) Spanish/Nat XFA Pistols in hand, former Peruvian President Alan Garcia barely escaped the troops and tanks that his successor, Alberto Fujimori, had sent after him. Once known as a leftist political firebrand, Garcia told APTN on Thursday that he had mellowed during his eight years in exile in Colombia and planned to return to Peru to run in the April elections. On April 5, 1992, Fujimori dissolved Congress and suspended the constitution, then sent troops to Garcia's house. Garcia had stayed home all day, protected by police bodyguards, after being warned of a death plot against him. It seemed like the end for Garcia, who had been one of Latin America's youngest and most high-profile leaders during the 1980s. A fiery, spellbinding speaker, Garcia had ascended to power in 1985 pledging social reform. He halted payments on Peru's foreign debt and urged other Latin American nations to do the same, angering Western powers and lending institutions. But Garcia was president during a period of decline in Peru and much of Latin America. Inflation rates soared and a Maoist-inspired movement, the Shining Path, was fomenting a campaign of terrorism. When Garcia left office, Peru's economy was in a shambles. Charges arose that he had embezzled dlrs 500,000 funds while in office. He also was accused of profiting from a decision to deposit Peru's international reserves into the scandal-plagued Bank of Credit and Commerce International and of other financial misdeeds, which he has consistently denied. Last week, one of Garcia's former accusers exonerated him in one case. In 1995, Peruvian business man Alfredo Zanatti backed up accusations by Fujimori's government that Garcia took a kickback from a construction company. In a video broadcast on Peruvian TV last week, Zanatti said he had been forced to make the false accusation after the army illegally detained him and threatened him and his family. On Monday, Garcia's left-leaning Aprista party nominated him as its presidential candidate in the April 8 elections. Fujimori is now in Japan, his ancestral homeland, where he fled in disgrace in November amid corruption allegations against himself and his intelligence chief, Vladimir Montesinos. The Andean country is currently being run by interim President Valentin Paniagua. Garcia confirmed he would return to Peru but would not give a specific date. SOUNDBITE:(Spanish) "Somebody told me yesterday, you have 10 years against you and a negative campaign mounted by a dictatorship that dominated that media, but I think that instead of going against me it goes in my favour because it is proof, for some reason they did not want anything to do with me, they had me out of the country for 10 years. With that proof I present myself saying that we must change some things immediately to solve the problems in Peru." SUPER CAPTION: Alan Garcia, Former President of Peru SOUNDBITE:(Spanish) "I am not going yet because that depends on the circumstances and the strategy of the party. I don't have any obstacles to returning to Peru. I have a detention order for alleged possession of guns found by the army in my house on the day of the coup, which is false. Dramatic testimonies like Mr Alfredo Zannatti's, and I begged the agency to make it public because the spectacular accusations show how a dictatorship can manipulate atrocities to annihilate enemies. Because of all that, I have no obstacles to going back but we have to time it right politically. Because I'll be arriving three months before the election I have to choose the right moment." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...