{"id":132794,"date":"2024-09-12T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/alberto-fujimori-perus-divisive-former-president-dies-aged-86\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T07:18:08","slug":"alberto-fujimori-perus-divisive-former-president-dies-aged-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/alberto-fujimori-perus-divisive-former-president-dies-aged-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberto Fujimori: Peru’s divisive former president dies aged 86"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori – who was convicted of human rights abuses and corruption – has died of cancer aged 86.<\/p>\n

His death on Wednesday in the capital, Lima, was announced by his daughter Keiko Fujimori.<\/p>\n

“After a long battle with cancer, our father… has just departed to meet the Lord,” she wrote in a social media post on X, also signed by her three siblings – Hiro, Sachie and Kenji.<\/p>\n

“We ask those who loved him to accompany us with a prayer for the eternal rest of his soul.”<\/p>\n

Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, led the country from 1990 to 2000.<\/p>\n

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During his decade in power he stabilised the economy after rampant hyperinflation with the privatisation of dozens of state-run companies.<\/p>\n

Also under his watch, the feared leader of the Maoist Shining Path, Abimael Guzman, was captured – a blow to a rebel movement that in the 1980s seemed close to toppling the Peruvian state.<\/p>\n

Fujimori quickly established himself as a cunning politician whose hands-on style produced results.<\/p>\n

But while he won the support of many, he also ruled with an iron fist, and many Peruvians saw Fujimori as an autocrat.<\/p>\n

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After briefly shutting down Congress and elbowing himself into a controversial third term, he fled the country in disgrace in 2000 when leaked videotapes showed his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing politicians.<\/p>\n

He went to Japan from where he famously faxed in his resignation.<\/p>\n

Five years later, when he landed in neighbouring Chile, he was arrested and extradited to Peru<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He was convicted of human rights violations, abuse of power and for ordering two massacres using death squads.<\/p>\n

Fujimori was released from prison last December after serving nearly 15 years of a 25-year jail term after Peru’s constitutional court reinstated a humanitarian pardon which had been granted to him six years earlier.<\/p>\n

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The ailing former leader was freed following years of health complaints. He had suffered from stomach ulcers,
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His supporters gathered outside his home last night.<\/p>\n

“Today, I weep for a leader,” said Cesar Valverde.<\/p>\n

“He should have been president again; we were working for Alberto Fujimori to be president again, but God has taken him.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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