Source: Irish Times [Ireland]
“Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori has died of cancer aged 86, his family announced on Wednesday. The hardline conservative led the South American nation in 1990-2000, during which he oversaw an economic revival and crushed the Shining Path guerrilla group while exerting an authoritarian grip on the country’s politics. In 2009 he was convicted of human rights abuses and corruption during his tenure and given a 25-year sentence. … He was released from prison in December last year on humanitarian grounds over his ailing health and left jail on the outskirts of the capital Lima last year in an oxygen mask.” (09/12/24)