Baruch Ivcher

President Alberto Fujimori ordered Ivcher stripped of his Peruvian citizenship when the station's investigative program Contrapunto exposed government corruption.

In 1970, he moved to Lima, Peru, where he opened a mattress factory, Productos Paraiso, now the largest bedding company in South America, worth well over $1 billion.

Ivcher acquired Peruvian nationality in keeping with a law in force at the time according to which aliens were not permitted to own a radio or television channel in Peru.

[4] In 1996, Ivcher's television station, Canal 2 (now Frecuencia Latina) , began airing investigative reports accusing Vladimiro Montesinos, head of Peru's national intelligence service, of links to death squads and drug traffickers.

[5] In July 1997, the case was submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which called on the Peruvian government to cease harassing Ivcher and violating his freedom of expression, reinstate him as president and director of Canal 2, and indemnify him for the false accusations against him.