Alberto Fujimori, the once popular Peruvian president credited with rescuing his country from economic chaos and leftist insurgency but who was later disgraced and sentenced to prison on charges of hu
man rights abuses, has died. His daughter Keiko announced his death Wednesday in a post on the social media platform X. Fujimori, who had been pardoned in December, died Wednesday in the capital, Lima, his daughter announced. He was 86. The first man of Japanese heritage to become leader of a Latin American nation, Fujimori was a university administrator who came from nowhere to win the presidency in 1990.
He deregulated industries and eliminated subsidies of gasoline and other goods and services in hopes of turning the tide on inflation. As daunting as hyperinflation was when he took office, so was the breakdown in security and the growing strength of the Shining Path guerrilla group, which embraced Maoism.
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