Alberto Fujimori is a Peruvian former politician who served as the President of Peru from 1990 to 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori has been praised for his successes in stemming guerrilla activity and the Shining Path insurgency in Peru, as well as for his economic management, but has been accused of human rights violations and has been convicted of corruption.
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) will be admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of a clinic in Lima after presenting Heart problems which led to his transfer to a social security hospital this Thursday, reported his personal doctor, Alejandro Aguinaga. The doctor, who is also a congressman for the Popular Force Fujimori party, … Read more
Susana Higuchi, former first lady of Peru during the government of Alberto Fujimori and mother of opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, died this Wednesday at the age of 71 a victim of cancer, her family announced on Twitter. Higuchi, the daughter of Japanese immigrants, had been admitted to a hospital in Lima for a month. “After … Read more
While Peru’s prisons are among the most overcrowded in Latin America, there is an exclusive prison in which only one inmate lives. It has no cells. It has three rooms, a library, a painting workshop, a kitchen, a meeting room, an infirmary and even a vegetable garden. To keep her and take care of her … Read more