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Peru’s controversial former president Alberto Fujimori dies of cancer | South China Morning Post

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Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori died of cancer on September 11, 2024, at the age of 86. A deeply divisive figure in Peru, Fujimori steered economic growth during the 1990s only to later end up jailed for 25 years for human rights abuses. In 2017, then-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned Fujimori on h…

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