LIMA, Peru — Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in a disgrace of autocratic excess that later sent him to prison, has died. He was 86.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]His death Wednesday in the capital, Lima, was announced by his daughter Keiko Fujimori in a post on X.
He had been pardoned in December from his convictions for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people.