He'll always have Paris

Alumnus to be proud of No 90 is the founder of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, which has been holding large parts of the Lima diplomatic corps hostage for the last eight weeks.

Victor Polay shares Oriental descent (in his case Chinese) with his adversary, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori and may have acquired his taste for situations combining overcrowded confined spaces, noise and bad sanitation with revolutionary politics while studying political economy and sociology at the Paris Sorbonne in the 1970s.