Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori He died this Wednesday at the age of 86, as announced by his daughter.
Fujimori had been suffering from health problems for years and was last seen last Thursday leaving a clinic where he was receiving medical treatment.
Last July He underwent successful hip surgerya week after being admitted to intensive care following a fall at his home in Lima.
Two months earlier, his doctors detected a new malignant tumorThat’s why he announced that he was going to start a new treatment.
At that time, he accompanied the message with a short video in which he assured that he would give “a new battle” against cancer.
Despite her health condition, her daughter Keiko Fujimori announced that His father intended to run for president. in the elections scheduled for 2026.
The release of Fujimori
In December 2023, Fujimori leaves the Lima prison where he He was serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity, after the Constitutional Court (TC) reinstated the pardon granted to him in December 2017 by the then president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018), due to his health condition.
This decision was adopted in defiance of the orders of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).
