Former President Alberto Fujimori had been out of office for more than two decades when he died. But his legacy still divides ...

Alberto Fujimori, the former Peruvian president who has died aged 86, was to his supporters the man who saved Peru from the ...

Fujimori’s 1990s-era government defeated Maoist rebels and revived a battered economy but descended into authoritarianism and ...

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del ...

During his decade in power, he revived the economy and crushed two violent leftist insurgencies. But he was forced out in a ...

saying the Fujimori government represented the lowest, worst point in the history of Peru as he made up his own rules and ignored the country's institutions. "For him there was no legal framework.

"He is the best president Peru has ever had ... according to a government truth commission. Sources close to his family told AFP Wednesday that Fujimori's health had deteriorated rapidly after ...

One of the most dramatic episodes of his presidency was a four-month hostage ordeal at the Japanese embassy in Lima in late 1996 and early 1997.

Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori, who ruled his country with an iron fist and then spent 16 years in prison.