Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Fujimori Fujimoriis a former Peruvian politician. He was President of Peru from 28 July 1990 to 22 November 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori ended his presidency by fleeing Peru for Japan amid a major scandal involving corruption and human rights violations. Despite this, some commentators have credited his government with the creation of Fujimorism, defeating the Shining Path insurgency and restoring Peru's macroeconomic stability. Even amid his prosecution in 2008 for crimes against humanity relating to his presidency, two-thirds...
NationalityPeruvian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 July 1938
CityLima, Peru
CountryPeru
At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.
I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States, ... I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.
Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.
In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
We were not going to liberate, release those terrorists because of our law and because of our national security and also the regional security.
There was a shoot-out a little more intense than we expected,
I want to go back (to Peru)someday, but I don't know when,
I want to go back (to Peru) someday, but I don't know when,
at the price of equal representation and democratic structure.
We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.
Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion, ... One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.
To all these charges - my answer is zero - there is absolutely not a single proof of misappropriation of funds,
We have declared a total freeze on military movement,
This operation was planned down to the last millimeter,