Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto (July 26, 1938 – September 11, 2024) was the President of Peru from 1990 to 2000.   A controversial figure in Peruvian politics, his government is credited with defeating the Shining Path insurgency and restoring Peru's macroeconomic stability.Fox, Elizabeth, and Fox, de Cardona and Waisbord, Silvio Ricardo. Latin Politics, Global Media. 2002, p. 154

In 2016, Fujimori's head of intelligence, Vladimiro Montesinos, was convicted for the force disappearances of a professor and two students in 1993.  Many people accused Fujimori of being complicit due to his having direct control of the military, led by Montesinos.

After that, Fujimori went to Japan, as his Japanese ancestry had allowed him citizenship there. Japan protected him from Peruvian law since they do not find any valid accusation. Fujimori resigned the Presidency of Peru. Valentín Paniagua was elected president by the Congress soon after Fujimori resigned.

His daughter, Keiko Fujimori is also a politician and ran for president three times, the most recent being is 2021.

Prison and release
In 2005 Fujimori was detained in Chile. After his extradition in 2007 the Peruvian government put him on trial and convicted him. He was sentenced to several years in prison. On 24 December 2017, President Kuczynski pardoned him on health grounds but in 2019 he was put back in prison. He was released in December 2023 because of bad health.

Death
Fujimori died of problems caused by tongue cancer on September 11, 2024 in Lima at the age of 86.

 References 

Other websites

 Biography and tenure by CIDOB Foundation 




 The Fall of Fujimori on POV at PBS, 2006
 State of Fear a documentary of Peru's war on terror based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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