I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

He was finally extradited to face criminal charges in Peru in September 2007. The verdict delivered by a three-judge panel marked the first time that an elected head of state has been extradited back to his home country tried and convicted of human rights violations. However he was criticized for his authoritarian way of ruling the country (especially after 1992) and was accused of human rights violations.