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Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto [b] (26 July 1938 [c] – 11 September 2024) was a Peruvian politician, professor, engineer, who served as the 54th president of the Republic of Peru from 1990 to 2000. [4] Born in Lima, Fujimori was the country's first president of Japanese descent, and was as an agronomist and university rector before entering ...
LIMA (Reuters) -Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who steered economic growth during the 1990s but was later jailed for human rights abuses stemming from a bloody war against Maoist ...
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, whose complicated and painful legacy included stabilizing the country’s economy before being jailed for human rights violations and corruption ...
Alberto Fujimori, the first man of Japanese heritage to become leader of a Latin American nation, was a university administrator who came from nowhere to win Peru's presidency in 1990.
Wanted in Peru, Fujimori maintained a self-imposed exile until his arrest while visiting Chile in November 2005. [2] He was extradited to face criminal charges in Peru in September 2007. [3] In December 2007, Fujimori was convicted of ordering an illegal search and seizure, and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Cambio 90 (lit.Change 90, C90) was a Peruvian right-wing political party which entered the political spectrum in early 1990, and throughout the 1990s until late-2000 was the most powerful political party in Peru alongside New Majority, serving more as an instrumental electoral vehicle for Alberto Fujimori.
F ew newspapers in the U.S. covered in depth the passing of Alberto Fujimori — President of Peru from 1990-2000 — on Sept. 11. The story got buried beneath an avalanche of headlines: a ...
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Fujimori's lawyers on 13 February 2019, confirming the earlier decision that Fujimori must serve the remaining 13 years of his sentence in prison. [ 45 ] The Constitutional Court of Peru , in a 4-3 ruling on 17 March 2022, reinstated the pardon, though it was not clear if or when he may be released. [ 13 ]