Peru’s Fujimori dies after long battle with cancer; 86
LIMA—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 rebels, died on Wednesday. He was aged 86.
“After a long battle with cancer, our father … has just departed to meet the Lord,” his daughter Keiko Fujimori wrote in a message on X.
Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, was the little-known chancellor of a farming university when elected to office in 1990.
He quickly established himself as a cunning politician whose hands-on style produced results even as he angered critics for concentrating power.
He slayed hyperinflation that had thrown millions of Peruvians out of work, privatized dozens of state-run companies and slashed trade tariffs, setting the foundations for Peru to become, for a while, one of Latin America’s most stable economies.
