Luis Jochamowitz is a Peruvian journalist

Journalist

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 and writer

Writer

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Jochamowitz has worked for the Peruvian magazines Variedades and Caretas

Caretas

Caretas is a weekly newsmagazine published in Lima, Peru, renowned for its investigative journalism. It was founded in October 1950 by Doris Gibson and Francisco Igartua....

. In 1993, while Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Fujimori Fujimori served as President of Peru from 28 July 1990 to 17 November 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori has been credited with the creation of Fujimorism, uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability, though his methods have drawn charges of...

 was president of Peru, he published Ciudadano Fujimori ("Citizen Fujimori"). He has also published El descuartizador del Hotel Comercio ("The Dismemberer of Hotel Comercio", 1995) and Vladimiro (2002, about Vladimiro Montesinos

Vladimiro Montesinos

Vladimiro Ilyich Montesinos Torres was the long-standing head of Peru's intelligence service, Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional , under President Alberto Fujimori. In 2000, secret videos, which he had recorded, were televised that showed his bribing an elected congressman to leave the opposition...

). Jochamowitz's work also includes fiction

Fiction

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such as Contra Dicciones ("Against Dictions") and Última Noticia ("Last News").