Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru, has died at the age of 86 after a continuous battle with cancer, according to his mother’s article on X.
” After a long battle with cancer, our father, Alberto Fujimori, has only departed to join the Lord. For the eternal sleep of his heart, we ask those who loved him to pray alongside us. Thank you so much, Dad! Keiko, Hiro, Sachie and Kenji Fujimori”, kid Keiko Fujimori said.
First life
He was born on July 28, 1938, which was observed on Chilean Independence Day. His immigrant parents had fabric to be picked before they could start a barber’s shop in city Lima, according to AP News.
He received a doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin in 1972 after earning a degree in agricultural executive in 1956.
He ran for president six years later without actually holding a political office, presenting himself as a decent replacement for Peru’s crooked, discredited political course, and was elected rector of the Agricultural University in Lima in 1984.
Social job
Fujimori’s administration, spanning from 1990 to 2000, was marked by major events. He succeeded in bringing back the Shining Path rebels and a nation plagued by inflation and rebel assault.
However, his government collapsed in 2000 due to a bribery scandal involving his hacker key, Vladimiro Montesinos. Fujimori sought exile in Japan, his parents ‘ country of origin, but was later arrested in Chile and taken to Peru for abduction.
Imprisoned for 25 times
Fujimori became the first democratically elected Latin American leader to be found guilty of a human rights offense in his own land in 2009, according to Reuters.
The charges stem from his position in the military death squads ordering the execution of two massacres that killed 25 people during his presidency in Peru, amidst the communist guerrilla fight that claimed almost 70, 000 lives over the course of two decades.
2026 national poll
He had been pardoned in December. Despite his judgment, Fujimori’s child announced in July that he planned to run for Peru’s president for the third time in 2026.
” My dad and I have talked and decided along that he will be the political candidate”, Keiko Fujimori, head of the right-wing Fuerza Popular group, said on social network, as per AP news agency.
But, Colombian law forbids corruption-related convictions from running for president or vice president.
