Alberto Fujimori

FILE - Peru's former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos enters the courtroom for a session of former President Alberto Fujimori's trial at a police base in Lima, Peru, June 30, 2008. A Peruvian court on Jan. 31, 2024 sentenced Montesinos, Fujimori's former spy chief, to 19 years and eight months in prison for being the perpetrator of a massacre of six farm workers in 1992. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Former Peruvian intelligence chief gets 19 years in prison for 1992 massacre of farmers

Vladimiro Montesinos, the controversial intelligence chief of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, has been sentenced to 19 years and eight months in prison for the 1992 massacre of six farmers in the town of Pativilca.
 
FILE - Vladimiro Montesinos, left, listens to his lawyer Estela Valdivia as he testifies at the trial of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori in Lima, June 30, 2008. Montesinos pleaded guilty, Monday, Jan 29, 2024, to charges in the 1992 massacre of six farmers who were accused of being members of a rebel group, taken from their homes by soldiers and executed in the town of Pativilca. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Ex-Peruvian intelligence chief pleads guilty to charges in 1992 massacre of six farmers

 
Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori, 85, center, is driven out of prison by his children Keiko, center right, and Kenji, center left, after being released from prison in Callao, Peru, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. The country's constitutional court ordered an immediate humanitarian release on Tuesday for the former leader who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is freed from prison on humanitarian grounds

 
Supporters of jailed president Alberto Fujimori dance outside the prison where he is interned in the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Peru's constitutional court ordered an immediate humanitarian release for the imprisoned former President who was serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the death squad slayings of 25 Peruvians in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peruvian constitutional court orders release of former President Alberto Fujimori

 
Peru's ousted President Pedro Castillo is escorted by police at the police station where he is being held in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Castillo was ousted by Congress and arrested on a charge of rebellion Wednesday after he sought to dissolve the legislative body and take unilateral control of the government, triggering a grave constitutional crisis. (AP Photo/Renato Pajuelo)

Peru president’s power grab recalls country’s dark past

 

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is freed from prison

Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison on humanitarian grounds, despite a request from a regional human rights court to delay his release. (AP Video/Cesar Barreto and Mauricio Muñoz)

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FILE - Congressman Kenji Fujimori speaks to the press regarding his expulsion, led by his sister Keiko, from the political party loyal to his father, former President Alberto Fujimori, at the Legislative Palace in Lima, Peru, Jan. 31, 2018. Fujimori has been sentenced on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, to 4 and a half years of suspended jail after being found guilty of influence peddling in a ploy to buy votes in 2018, to prevent the destitution of then-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Son of ex-president sentenced in Peru vote-buying plot

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A former Peruvian congressman who is the son of ex-President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced Tuesday to four and a half years in prison for influence trafficking, though he will remain free pending appeal.
 
FILE - Keiko Fujimori waves to the press after conceding defeat in the presidential election accompanied by her husband Mark Villanella, in Lima, Peru, June 10, 2016. The former Peruvian presidential candidate and daughter of imprisoned ex-President Alberto Fujimori, posted on her twitter account, Tuesday, June 21, 2022, that she is ending her marriage. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Peru’s ex-presidential candidate Fujimori announces divorce

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori revealed Tuesday that she is ending her marriage to her Peruvian-American husband, Mark Villanella.
 
FILE - Peru's jailed, former President Alberto Fujimori, photographed through a glass window, attends his trial at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, June 28, 2016. A Peruvian judge on Thursday, March 24, 2022, banned Fujimori from leaving the country for 18 months upon his released from prison where he is serving a 25-year sentence for murder. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Rights court orders Peru not to release jailed ex-president

LIMA, Peru (AP) — The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Friday ordered Peru to “refrain” from releasing imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori despite a ruling by the South American country’s Constitutional Court that he be freed.
 
People prepare a communal stew for protesters blocking the Pan American highway during a truckers strike in Ica, Peru, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Peru's President Pedro Castillo imposed a curfew on the capital and the country's main port in response to sometimes violent protests over rising prices of fuel and food, requiring people in Lima and Callao to mostly stay in their homes all of Tuesday. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Peru imposes, then withdraws curfew to quell price protests

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has lifted a curfew he had decreed less than a day earlier in the country’s capital and its main port in a bid to quell sometimes violent protests over rising fuel and food prices.
 
Police guard the jail where former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is being held in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Earlier in the month, Peru's Constitutional Court approved Fujimori's release from prison where he is serving a 25-year sentence for murder and corruption charges, restoring a humanitarian pardon granted to Fujimori on Christmas Eve in 2017. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Peru won’t free Fujimori at request of regional rights court

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian authorities said Wednesday they will comply with a request from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to not release former President Alberto Fujimori from prison until it can examine the case.
 
FILE - Jailed former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, photographed through a glass window, attends his trial at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, April 23, 2014. Peru's Constitutional Court on Thursday, March 17, 2022, approved the release from prison of Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for murder and corruption charges. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Peru judge bars Fujimori from leaving country once released

A Peruvian judge has banned former President Alberto Fujimori from leaving the country for 18 months as soon as he leaves a prison where he has been serving a 25-year sentence for murder.
 
A young man wears a mask against the spread of the new coronavirus that has text that reads in Spanish "Fujimori never more," as demonstrators protest against the decision of Peru's Constitutional Court approving the release from prison of former President Alberto Fujimori in Lima, Peru, Thursday, March 17, 2022. A court official said the court restored a humanitarian pardon granted to Fujimori on Christmas Eve in 2017 by then President Pablo Kuczynski. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru court orders ex-President Fujimori freed from prison

Peru’s Constitutional Court has approved the release from prison of former President Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for murder and corruption charges.
 
Peru's President Pedro Castillo, left, waves alongside his new Cabinet Chief Anibal Torres, during the swearing-in of Castillos´s new Cabinet, at the government palace in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. This is Castillo's fourth Cabinet shakeup in six months. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru’s president swears in 4th Cabinet in half a year

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Pedro Castillo swore in the fourth Cabinet of his half year in office Tuesday amid criticism for his poor previous choices for ministers and even calls by his rivals to step down.
 
Pedro Castillo, center, celebrates with his running mate Dina Boluarte after being declared president-elect of Peru by election authorities, at his party´s campaign headquarters in Lima Peru, Monday, July 19, 2021. Castillo was declared president-elect more than a month after the elections took place and after opponent Keiko Fujimori claimed that the election was tainted by fraud. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Prado)

Leftist teacher, political novice, is Peru’s president-elect

A teacher in one of the poorest communities in the Andes who has never held office is now Peru’s president-elect after officials in the South American country declared him the winner of a runoff election held last month.
 
FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2013 file photo, jailed former President Alberto Fujimori attends his hearing at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Fujimori is facing new charges on March 1, 2021, accused of being the mastermind of the sterilization against their will of more than 1 thousand Quechua Indigenous women during his administration. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

In Peru, sterilization case against Fujimori goes to court

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is on trial for his role in a 1990s government program in which many Indigenous women in poor communities say they were forcibly sterilized, and some died or suffered serious injuries because of infection.
 
FILE - In this May 18, 2020, file photo, a pigeon flies in the General Cemetery, in La Paz, Bolivia. Even amid a global pandemic, there’s no sign that corruption is slowing down in Latin America. Perhaps the biggest case is in Bolivia, where the health minister was arrested amid allegations that officials bought 170 ventilators at inflated prices. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)

Spread of coronavirus fuels corruption in Latin America

MIAMI (AP) — Even in a pandemic, there’s no slowdown for swindlers in Latin America.

From Argentina to Panama, a number of officials have been forced to resign as reports of fraudulent purchases of ventilators, masks and other medical supplies pile up.
 

AP Explains: The arrest of Peru powerbroker Keiko Fujimori

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian judge on Tuesday ruled that opposition leader Keiko Fujimori must be held in prison for 15 months while she is investigated for possible money laundering.
 
Keiko Fujimori leaves the Chorillos prison in Lima, Peru, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. The Constitutional Tribunal narrowly approved a habeas corpus request to free Fujimori from detention while she is investigated for alleged accusations she accepted money from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru’s Keiko Fujimori leaves prison after top court ruling

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Supporters cheered late Friday as once-powerful opposition leader and two-time Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori left the prison where she had been held while being investigated for alleged corruption.
 

Dark days for Peru’s political dynasty after congress closes

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Inside a colonial-era mansion that has seen better days, leaders of Peru’s Fuerza Popular movement gathered for an urgent meeting Thursday, scrambling for ways to save their party’s once-dominant place in politics.
 

Peru’s president offers resignation amid political turmoil

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Embattled President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski offered his resignation Wednesday ahead of an impeachment vote, seeking to put an end to a fast-moving political drama playing out just three weeks before the Andean nation is set to host U.S.
 

2 top officials quit Peru government amid political crisis

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Two senior officials resigned Wednesday from Peru’s government, the latest in a wave of defections amid a political crisis in the South American country.
 

Peru’s president grants medical pardon for jailed Fujimori

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s president announced Sunday night that he granted a medical pardon to jailed former strongman Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, corruption and the sanctioning of death squads.