The Japanese-born Peruvian head of state from 1990 to 2000, whose strategies and legacy have been extremely contested and who was convicted of crimes towards humanity, died on September 11 on the age of 86.
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Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori died on Wednesday, September 11, on the age of 86, in Lima, Peru. “After an extended battle with most cancers, our father, Alberto Fujimori, has simply left to satisfy the Lord. We ask those that cherished him to accompany us with a prayer for the everlasting remainder of his soul. Thanks for a lot Dad!” wrote his kids Keiko, Hiro, Sachie and Kenji Fujimori on the X.
The previous autocrat, who dominated the nation with an iron fist for 10 years, had been launched from jail 9 months earlier, by the choice of the Constitutional Court docket in December 2023. On the time, he was serving a 25-year jail sentence for human rights violations and acts of corruption dedicated throughout his presidency, from 1990 to 2000.
Fujimori is undoubtedly probably the most controversial figures in Peru’s historical past. Hated by some, idolized by others, his destiny continues to unleash passions in a rustic deeply divided over its former chief.
Born in Lima on July 28, 1938, this son of Japanese immigrants was an entire unknown when he ran for the 1990 presidential election. A former rector at La Molina agrarian college, he had no political expertise and, up towards the million-dollar marketing campaign of author Mario Vargas Llosa, who was backed by right-wing forces, his candidacy appeared doomed. However the agricultural engineer stunned many by reaching the second spherical of the April 1990 election. Targeted on the poorest neighborhoods, his marketing campaign and his outsider picture, against conventional politicians, resonated with voters.
On the time, Peru was within the midst of an financial disaster. Inflation had reached 7,500%, whereas the armed battle that had begun in 1980 between the military and the left-wing guerrillas of the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Motion was escalating and there was no answer in sight. Towards this backdrop, the candidacy of the now-popular “Chino” (“Chinese language,” in reference to his Asian origins) aroused a wave of hope amongst Peruvians and, towards all expectations, he was elected president with the help of left-wing events.
‘The Fuji shock’
Two weeks after his inauguration, Fujimori stunned his voters by asserting a shock financial coverage to drag the nation out of the disaster. Unexpectedly, the measure was much more drastic than the austerity proposed by his opponents in the course of the marketing campaign, which he had strongly criticized. The “Fuji shock” marked the brand new president’s first 180-degree flip. One other controversial determination adopted: the compelled closure of Congress on April 5, 1992, described as a “self-coup.” This determination was common, however utterly undermined democratic processes. The opposition decried it as a dictatorship, however to no avail. Within the aftermath, Fujimori convened a Constituent Meeting to draft a brand new basic legislation, accepted by referendum. This structure restricted the state’s function in favor of personal enterprise.
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