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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. (AP Photo/Claudio Santana, File)

Alberto Fujimori, a former president of Peru who was convicted of human rights abuses, dies at 86

By Franklin Briceño - Associated Press

Peru's President Dina Boluarte gives a statement to the press during an official visit by Ecuadorean counterpart Daniel Noboa to the government palace in Lima, Peru, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Peru’s Congress approves statute of limitations for crimes against humanity committed before 2002

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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

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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

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Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori, and leader of the opposition party, center, with her husband Mark Vito Villanela, left, arrive to vote during congressional elections in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Peruvians are voting to elect 130 new members of the congress that will legislate for only one year in place of the congress that was dissolved by president Martin Vizacarra in September 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

AP Explains: The arrest of Peru powerbroker Keiko Fujimori

By MANUEL RUEDA and FRANK BRICENO - Associated Press

Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori and opposition leader is escorted by police in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. In a court session a judge decided she must return to preventive detention pending a corruption investigation. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru judge orders detention for Fujimori during graft probe

By Franklin Briceño - Associated Press

Police stand guard outside the government palace in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the opposition-controlled congress and called new elections on Monday, saying the step was needed to uproot the nation's endemic corruption. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Dark days for Peru’s political dynasty after congress closes

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Peru medical board says Fujimori fit to return to jail

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In this Oct. 25, 2013, file photo, Peru's jailed, former President Alberto Fujimori attends his hearing at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. On Dec. 24, 2017, Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski announced he was granting Fujimori a medical pardon. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Peru’s president, grants medical pardon for jailed Alberto Fujimori

By Franklin Briceno - Associated Press

Mercedez Araoz, right, and Martin Vizcarra, the running mates of presidential candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, talk to reporters outside Kuczynski 's home in Lima, Peru, Monday, June 6, 2016. Kuczynski had a razor-thin lead over his rival Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jailed former strongman Alberto Fujimori, as Peruvians awaited results still trickling in from remote parts of the Andean nation. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Peru presidential election in runoff as expat votes counted

By Jessie Fox - The Washington Times

Presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori, gives the thumbs up during a news conference, in Lima, Peru, Sunday, April 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Keiko Fujimori, daughter of jailed former president, leads Peru election first round

By Franklin Briceno - Associated Press

Jailed former President Alberto Fujimori, photographed through a glass window, leaves a courtroom at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, March 13, 2014. Fujimori’s attending neurologist says that he suffered a stroke early Friday, March 14, 2014, at the police compound where the 75-year-old is serving a 25-year sentence for authorizing death squads. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru’s ex-President Fujimori has stroke, is stable

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Feb. 3, 2012, Maximiliana Quillahuaman, left, talks as Micaela Flores looks on after an interview in Lima, Peru. Quillahuaman and Flores were both coerced into being sterilized during a 1995-2000 program that sterilized more than 300,000 women, mostly poor, illiterate Indians. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Justice delayed for Peru sterilization victims

By Carla Salazar and Frank Bajak - Associated Press

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Presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, a former military officer, waves after casting his ballot in the general elections in Lima, Peru, on Sunday.

Leftist wins the most presidential votes, but runoff is required in Peruvian race

By Frank Bajak - Associated Press

Japanese elections feature unlikely crop of candidates

Japanese elections feature unlikely crop of candidates