Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori (center) is driven out of prison by one of his lawyers, accompanied by his son Kenji (left) after his release in Callao, Peru, on Dec. 6, 2023.

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 ...

FILE - Former Peru's President Alberto Fujimori waves at his home in Santiago after leaving the academy for the training of corrections officers in Santiago, Chile, May 18, 2006.

Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori arrives for the reading of a verdict on charges of embezzling state funds and using them to manipulate the media, at a police base in Lima on January 8, 2015.

Fujimori won a third term in 2000, beating future president and World Bank economist Alejandro Toledo. But after widespread reports of voting irregularities, many regional leaders shunned his ...

Former President Alberto Fujimori of Peru, a controversial figure who helmed the country's government from 1990 to 2000, died Wednesday. He was 86.

Former Peru's President Alberto Fujimori waves at his home in Santiago after leaving the academy for the training of corrections officers in Santiago, Chile, May 18, 2006.

Alberto Fujimori, ex-president of Peru who was convicted of human rights abuses, dies at 86. He was arrested in Chile in 2006, six years after fleeing the country in disgrace.

Fujimori was born July 28, 1938, Peruvian Independence Day, and his immigrant parents picked cotton until they could open a tailor’s shop in downtown Lima.

Fujimori also gave Peru’s security forces free rein to take on the Shining Path. In September 1992, police captured rebel leader Abimael Guzmán . Deservedly or not, Fujimori took credit.

Fujimori, who governed with an increasingly authoritarian hand in 1990-2000, was pardoned in December from his convictions for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people.

FILE – Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori is seen gesturing on a screen during the first day of his trial on charges of alleged human rights violations and corruption during his ...