Alberto Fujimori, whose presidency initially aroused admiration for his economic management and his heavy hand against left-wing terrorist groups, only to see his reputation destroyed by condemnations of human rights abuses for atrocities committed by his government, died this Sept. 11 at age 86 in Lima.
His death from cancer was confirmed by his daughter Keiko Fujimori on her social network account X.
Fujimori, who ruled with an increasingly authoritarian hand between 1990 and 2000, was pardoned in December 2017 of his convictions for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people. His daughter Keiko said in July that she planned to run for president for the fourth time in 2026.
The former university president and mathematics professor was a political novice when he won the Peruvian elections in 1990 against writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
