Sep. 15, 2024 00:12 AM EDT
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Controversial former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was buried Saturday after three days of national mourning in which thousands of supporters lined up outside a museum in Lima to visit the politician's casket.
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte saluted the...
Sep. 12, 2024 22:36 PM EDT
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s government on Thursday declared three days of national mourning over the death of former President Alberto Fujimori and granted him a state funeral despite his convictions for human rights abuses and corruption.
Fujimori, who governed the South American...
Sep. 12, 2024 15:17 PM EDT
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in autocratic excess that later sent him to prison, has died. He was 86.
His death Wednesday in the capital, Lima, was...