Career
By the early 1970s, during the leftist military junta of General Juan Velasco, Montesinos became a captain in the Peruvian army. By 1973, he had been appointed to the role of aide to General Edgardo Mercado JarrÃn, who served as both Prime Minister and Chief of the Armed Forces, .
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