The autocrat, who ruled Peru between 1990 and 2000, left prison in Lima last December, where he was serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity.
The former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori He died this Wednesday at his home in Lima at the age of 86, after “a long battle with cancer,” as reported by his daughter and political heiress Keiko Fujimori in a post published on the social network X.
The autocrat was born in 1938 and exercised an iron-fisted government in Peru between 1990 and 2000.
Fujimori, who turned 86 on July 28, left prison in Lima last December, where he was serving a prison sentence 25 years in prison for crimes against humanityafter the Constitutional Court (TC) restored the humanitarian pardon granted to him in 2017 by then-ruler Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018).
Nicknamed “Chino” for his oriental features, despite being of Japanese descent, he is a figure who divides Peruvian society. While some praise his figure, since he saved his country from terrorism and economic collapse; Others emphasize that he was an autocrat who committed serious violations of human rights.
Fujimori won the 1989 Peruvian presidential election and just three years later, in collaboration with the armed forces, he carried out a coup d’état that abolished the constitution, closed Congress and intervened in the Palace of Justice.
His ten years as president were interrupted by several massacres, including those in Barrios Altos and La Cantuta, for which he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. However, in December 2023, he was pardoned on humanitarian grounds, despite the objections of the inter-American justice system.
Source: EITB
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