In the political history of Peru, Alberto Fujimori is one of the names the record keeps returning to.
The record lists Alberto Fujimori as President of Peru from 1990 to 2000.
Alberto Fujimori was born at Miraflores in 1938. His recorded nationality is Peru. He was educated at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and National Agrarian University.
Twentieth-century politics was conducted under the shadow of two world wars, decolonisation and the Cold War, and broadcast to electorates that could watch it happen.
The offices held were President of Peru (1990–2000).
His political affiliation is recorded as Sí Cumple and Cambio 90.
His name is attached above all to neoliberal political and economic ideology of Fujimorism, which pushed a free market economy and social conservatism. What survives of a political career is usually not the speeches but the institutions left behind.
Recognition followed: Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania (1998), Grand Cross, Special Class of the Order of the Sun of Peru, Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.
That the career was made in Peru is not incidental: the institutions available, the franchise, and the constraints of the moment all shaped what could be attempted.
Alberto Fujimori died in 2024, aged 86. The assessment continues, as it does for anyone who held power - which is the ordinary fate of a political life.
Achievements
- President of Peru (1990–2000)
- Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania — 1998
- Grand Cross, Special Class of the Order of the Sun of Peru
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Educated at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and National Agrarian University
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