SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori He died this Wednesday in Lima at the age of 86, according to his daughter, Keiko Fujimori, who reported on social media.
In a message on the social network X, she wrote: “After a long battle with cancer, our father, Alberto Fujimori, has just departed to meet the Lord. We ask those who appreciated him to accompany us with a prayer for the eternal rest of his soul. Thank you for so much, Dad!”
Fujimoriwho ruled Peru in the last decade of the last century, remained at his daughter’s house in the Lima district of San Borja.
The former ruler had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for being the indirect author of the massacres in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases.
After a long battle with cancer, our father, Alberto Fujimori, has just departed to meet the Lord. We ask those who loved him to accompany us with a prayer for the eternal rest of his soul.
Thanks for so much dad!
Keiko, Hiro, Sachie and Kenji Fujimori.— Keiko Fujimori (@KeikoFujimori) September 11, 2024
According to the newspaper The CountryFujimori Sr. had expressed his possible participation in the 2026 elections, despite the fact that the Constitution prohibits those convicted of having committed a willful crime, as authors or accomplices, from aspiring to an elected office.
The former president had tried to “clean up his image” for the acts that incriminate him and had joined the political group led by his daughter.
He ruled between 1990 and 2000. During his term, he temporarily closed Congress and ruled by decree for months.
He was sometimes credited with suppressing insurgencies by the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, but his methods were criticized and earned him a long prison sentence for crimes against humanity.
He was ousted in 2000 after a television channel broadcast a video of his intelligence chief trying to bribe a congressman. Fujimori fled to Japan, where he submitted his resignation by fax from a Tokyo hotel.
After five years, he traveled to Chile but was extradited to Peru. Fujimori was released in December 2023, fourteen years after being sentenced to 25 years in prison, including a period of extradition from Chile in 2007.
He was pardoned on Christmas Eve in December 2017, but had to return to prison after the ruling was overturned. His release in 2023 came amid questions about his failure to comply with an order from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The president of the IACHR had urged the Peruvian State to refrain from releasing Fujimoribut the Constitutional Court ignored it and ordered his release.
