2024-09-12 23:45:28
Alberto Fujimori, former president of Peru (1990-2000), is described as Controversial president who generated opinions that divided the population and in world politics. His administration was marked by achievements, and also by serious accusations of human rights violations.
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After his death on September 11, due to health complications resulting from a tongue cancer, The Peruvian population has moved, bringing back memories of glory and pain in the country.
He is a “hero of peace, no one gives a damn” for this country, he said AFP Ana María Gando, a 75-year-old retiree, was taken after waiting for two hours to see the body of Fujimori at the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture, formerly known as the National Guard House.
“He is the best president that Peru’s history has had. It has given us peace and created the foundation for this economy to grow. Peru will be forever grateful to you,” said Olinda Chen, a 43-year-old manager.
On the other hand, institutions such as the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (IDEHPUCP), refuse to pay tribute to the former president. “We express our rejection of the decision of the Government and the Congress to honor Alberto Fujimori as head of state, “a gesture considered insulting to democracy and human rights in Peru.”
What makes you a controversial and divisive president in your country?
To talk about the Fujimori Government, we must mention the economic stability of Peru in those years, it was one of the strong points during Fujimori’s rule. The man implemented policies that brought Peru out of a serious economic crisis. Under your command, hyperinflation in managing and promoting economic growth, achieving greater stability and attracting foreign investments.
During his tenure he also implemented infrastructure programs that improved living conditions in rural and urban areas, viz construction of roads, schools and hospitals.
We also remember his command for successfully facing insurgent groups like Bright path and the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), a controversial period in which many innocent people died. His supporters describe him as a hero who saved the country from war and economic collapse. While his detractors described him as a dictator who used the country’s democratic institutions to stay in power.
The president closed the orders that were reador human rights violations, Abuses such as extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and forced sterilizations were carried out on thousands of indigenous women without their consent, under the pretext of family planning procedures.
Although the capture of Abimael Guzmán, the leader of History, on September 12, 1992, was the subject of millions of conversations in the country, at this time, genocide is being carried out as The Barrios Altos Massacre (November, 1991), when the professional group Colina entered a party in the neighborhood of Barrios Altos, in Lima, with the aim of eliminating the accused terrorists. Electronic way. Members of the group fired indiscriminately at the participants, killing 15 people, including an eight-year-old boy and many innocent people.
Fujimori also proved he was a dictator by shooting down Congress in 1992. in personal record, concentrated power in the Executive and weakened democratic institutions. His government was accused of massive corruption, including cases involving his advisor Vladimiro Montesinos.
In 2000, after a corruption scandal. Fujimori fled to Japan. Years later he was deported from Chile and sentenced to prison for human rights violations and corruption and in 2007 he was transferred to Peru, where. He is guilty of crimes against humanity and corruption, spending 16 years in prison.
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Last December He left prison in Lima, where he is serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity. This is possible after the Constitutional Court of Peru reinstated the humanitarian amnesty granted to him in 2017 by then president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. This decision of the TC challenges previous orders of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR Court), causing controversy both nationally and internationally.
Until his death, the former president declared his intention to return to the presidency of Peru, after his daughter Keiko Fujimori announced a few months ago, his father’s desire to return as president.
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