#keiko fujimori

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Franklin Briceño at AP, via HuffPost:

LIMA, Peru (AP) — 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 prison, has died. He was 86. His death Wednesday in the capital, Lima, was announced by his daughter Keiko Fujimori in a post on X. He had been pardoned in December from his convictions for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people. His daughter said in July that he was planning to run for Peru’s presidency for the fourth time in 2026.

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. His daughter said in July that he was planning to run for Peru’s presidency for the fourth time in 2026. The former university president and mathematics professor was the consummate political outsider when he emerged from obscurity to win Peru’s 1990 election over writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Over a tumultuous political career, he repeatedly made risky, go-for-broke decisions that alternately earned him adoration and reproach. He took over a country ravaged by runaway inflation and guerrilla violence, mending the economy with bold actions including mass privatizations of state industries. Defeating fanatical Shining Path rebels took a little longer but also won him broad-based support.

Alberto Fujimori, the former Peruvian President and serial human rights abuser, has died at 86.

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El Perú es el Kongreso, el Kongreso es el Palais Concert de la Korrupción

“La corrupción no es un mal menor, es un cáncer que corroe las entrañas de nuestras instituciones y amenaza la anémica democracia.” “Un país sin justicia es un país sin futuro.” “La federalización no es una utopía, es una necesidad imperiosa para construir un Perú más justo y equitativo.” América Latina se encuentra en un punto de inflexión. La corrupción, el narcotráfico y la manipulación de…

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Alberto Fujimori, polémico expresidente de Perú fallece a sus 86 años de edad

LIMA (DDN) • Alberto Fujimori, el controvertido expresidente peruano que gobernó el país con mano dura durante la década de 1990, falleció el 11 de septiembre de 2024 a los 86 años de edad, según informaron fuentes oficiales. Su muerte marca el fin de una era turbulenta en la política peruana y ha provocado reacciones diferenciales en todo el país. Fujimori, de ascendencia japonesa, llegó al…

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Keiko Fujimori reitera que Fuerza Popular no apoyará Asamblea Constituyente

La lideresa del grupo político Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, reiteró que su partido no apoyará la Asamblea Constituyente propuesta por algunos legisladores en el Congreso de la República. “Fuerza Popular va a seguir defendiendo la Constitución de 1993, que este año cumple 30 años de vigencia”, manifestó Fujimori durante el encuentro anual de capacitación e integración de su bancada. En ese…

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Keiko Fujimori reitera que Fuerza Popular no apoyará Asamblea Constituyente

La lideresa del grupo político Fuerza Popular, Keiko Fujimori, reiteró que su partido no apoyará la Asamblea Constituyente propuesta por algunos legisladores en el Congreso de la República. “Fuerza Popular va a seguir defendiendo la Constitución de 1993, que este año cumple 30 años de vigencia”, manifestó Fujimori durante el encuentro anual de capacitación e integración de su bancada. En ese…

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[vicholas]

Time ago I made a post mentioning Keiko Fujimori and someone DM'd me confused asking me why is it that there are some Japanese politicians in Peru and I didn't know how to explain that immigration's a thing

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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress on Thursday passed a law establishing a statute of limitations for crimes against humanity committed before 2002, a decision that human rights organizations have warned could encourage impunity and thwart investigations into serious abuses.

It could also benefit figures including former president Alberto Fujimori and retired military personnel accused of — or even convicted for — crimes committed between 1980 and 2000 during an internal armed conflict that left thousands of victims.

According to the Peruvian prosecutor’s office, the legislation will have a direct impact on 550 victims and 600 cases, including investigations and judicial processes that would be archived or dismissed by statute of limitations.

Fujimori, who governed Peru from 1990 to 2000, was sentenced in 2009 on charges of human rights abuses. He was accused of being the mastermind behind the killings of the 25 Peruvians while the government fought the Shining Path communist rebels.

The new law, in fact, was promoted by the right-wing Popular Force (FP) party, led by Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former president Fujimori, and it states that “no one will be prosecuted, condemned or sanctioned for war crimes or crimes against humanity committed prior to July 1, 2002.”

Initially approved in June, the law needed a second vote that took place Thursday.

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte can either enact the law or return it to Congress with further recommendations. Boluarte has not said what she will do.

Several lawmakers who were military and navy personnel during the armed internal conflict support the law.

The Institute of Democracy and Human Rights of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru said in a statement that “the law aims to limit the application of internal justice through the extinction of any criminal liability due to the passage of time.”

In June, several human rights organizations in Peru warned that if the law were to be approved, impunity would be promoted in all cases that are part of the internal armed conflict from 1980 to 2000, including a famous trial in which former President Fujimori was accused of the 1992 massacre of six farmers executed by a clandestine group of soldiers.

Earlier this year, former Peruvian intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos and a close aide of Fujimori was sentenced to 19 years and eight months in prison in connection with the 1992 massacre.

According to a truth commission that studied the period of the conflict, the victims were mostly Indigenous people caught in clashes between security forces and members of the Shining Path rebel group. The commission estimates that the conflict killed 70,000 people.

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Ex-presidente peruano Alberto Fujimori morre aos 86 anos

Lima, Peru, 12 de setembro de 2024 – Agência de Notícias Andina – O ex-presidente peruano Alberto Fujimori, figura controversa na política latino-americana, faleceu nesta quarta-feira (11) aos 86 anos, após uma prolongada batalha contra o câncer. A notícia foi anunciada por sua filha, Keiko Fujimori, através das redes sociais. Fujimori, o primeiro presidente peruano de ascendência japonesa,…

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🇵🇪 🚨 PERU CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RELEASES FASCIST EX-PRESIDENT FUJIMORI, GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, FROM PRISON

Via@XinhuaNewsAgency

Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori left prison Wednesday, where he was serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity, after the Constitutional Court (TC) issued a resolution on Tuesday ordering his "immediate release."

Fujimori walked out of the black gates of Barbadillo Prison, located in Lima's Ate district, at 6:30 p.m. local time (2330 GMT), and was met by his family members Keiko and Kenji Fujimori.

Shortly before his release, the National Penitentiary Institute confirmed via social media that "in compliance with the TC ruling that provides for the immediate release of the inmate Alberto Fujimori, and after processing the document in accordance with internal protocols, it will proceed with the execution of the release."

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On the evening of Jan. 8, U.S. President Joe Biden took to Twitter to condemn an invasion of government buildings by a violent mob. Hours after a crowd vandalized the National Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace in Brasília, the official @POTUS account bashed the “assault on democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power in Brazil.”

It all felt like déjà vu. Almost to the day, Brazil was seeing a remake of the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol, which sought to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s 2020 election victory. A day after Brazil’s insurrection, Biden called new Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to convey his “unwavering support” for the country’s democracy. The two decided to meet in Washington in February and are convening on Friday.

Now, together at the White House, Biden and Lula must face the uncomfortable reality that the two insurrections that sought to overturn their respective election victories are parts of the same plot. What’s more, Brazil’s iteration would likely never have occurred had the United States not experienced what it did on Jan. 6, 2021. The two attacks were in many ways fueled by U.S. social media companies’ reluctance to police disinformation related to the election results—and Brazil’s was empowered by the U.S. justice system’s failure so far to hold former U.S. President Donald Trump to account. Though Biden was not involved personally in either riot, as U.S. president he has a unique responsibility to help Lula combat anti-democratic forces in Brazil.

Trump’s Big Lie—which falsely claims that he won the 2020 U.S. presidential election and more generally that recent U.S. elections have been riddled with fraud—did not start after the 2020 election. Trump has promulgated the narrative since 2016. “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” he tweeted just 19 days after being elected via the Electoral College (but losing the popular vote).

Since the 2021 insurrection, Trump’s claims have emboldened far-right politicians all over the world. In June of that year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to undermine a vote that gave power to the opposition by saying, “We are witnessing the greatest election fraud in the history of the country.” His narrative included a conspiracy about a so-called deep state and calling the media a “propaganda machine enlisted in favor of the left.” That same month, Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori promoted her own Big Lie about election fraud while she delayed conceding to Pedro Castillo (who would later be ousted by Peru’s Congress).

But nowhere was Trump’s Big Lie replicated as eagerly as in Brazil. Former President Jair Bolsonaro copied so many of Trump’s rhetorical tactics to undermine trust in elections that they sounded almost like a Portuguese-language dubbing of the U.S. president. After his inauguration in 2019, Bolsonaro claimed that he had won the election by a bigger margin than he had in reality. And ahead of last October’s contest against Lula, Bolsonaro’s administration promoted—and then pushed for a behind-the-scenes investigation of—bogus claims of widespread fraud in Brazil’s electronic voting system. Bolsonaro’s allies even made a last-minute attempt to halt the Oct. 30 runoff vote by claiming that Brazil’s electoral court was preventing radio stations from airing the same number of ads for Lula’s and Bolsonaro’s parties—a Brazilian version of Trump’s “Stop the Count.”

It’s no accident that Brazil’s insurrection so closely mirrored the one in the United States. The far-right movements in the two countries are deeply interconnected.

Ties between the Bolsonaro family and Trump aides date back to 2018. That year, Eduardo Bolsonaro—the former president’s third son and a member of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies—met with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and soon after became the South American representative of the Movement, a coalition of far-right extremists in Europe and Latin America that Bannon had founded. In a September 2022 interview with BBC News Brazil, Bannon praised the then-Brazilian president’s expertise in engaging his supporters through social media and said both he and Eduardo have “charisma” that is lacking in U.S. politics. He also acknowledged that he spent a lot of his time “talking backstage” with the Bolsonaros during the 2022 Brazilian presidential campaign. Two of Bolsonaro’s other sons, Carlos and Flávio, are also deeply involved in the former president’s political enterprise; Carlos manages his social media profiles.

Since Bannon and Eduardo Bolsonaro met, Eduardo has spent a great deal of time in the United States, meeting at least 80 times with members of the U.S. far right. He was even in Washington in the days before and after Jan. 6, 2021. The grounds for his visit are still not clear; at the time, the Brazilian Embassy in Washington said the foreign ministry was not aware of the trip. While in Washington in January 2021, Eduardo met with Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, as well as MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who is reported to have suggested that Trump should declare martial law to stay in power.

The elder Bolsonaro, for his part, did not condemn the attempted U.S. insurrection, stating that “there were people who voted three, four times, dead people who voted,” which is false. He used Trump’s Big Lie to say Brazil needed paper ballots in its own elections, otherwise “we [in Brazil] will have a problem worse than the United States.”

After Bolsonaro’s family and close allies helped spread Trump’s Big Lie, key actors in the “Stop the Steal” campaign also planted the seeds of mistrust in Brazil’s electoral system.

In August 2021, Eduardo was a keynote speaker at an event Lindell hosted in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where the businessman promised he would reveal proof of election fraud in 2020. (His attempt to do so failed miserably.) On stage, Eduardo attacked Brazil’s electronic voting system, saying, “You dial the number of your candidate and pray to God that your vote will be correctly counted.” Bannon, who was sitting by his side, then claimed that the 2022 Brazilian election would be “the second most important in the world and the most important of all time in South America. Bolsonaro will win unless it is stolen by, guess what, the machines.”

Bannon was among the first to call on Bolsonaro not to concede to Lula last October; he did so on a Gettr livestream just hours after results showed Bolsonaro’s defeat. Bolsonaro never conceded—and remained publicly silent for 44 hours after the election results were announced while his supporters violently blocked roads and camped in front of military premises. He did not condemn them and left the country for Florida two days before the end of his term.

Now, as Lula and Biden meet, Bolsonaro remains in the United States. And with the news that the former Brazilian president recently applied for a six-month U.S. tourist visa, his presence is becoming more uncomfortable for the U.S. political establishment. Several House Democrats have called for the Biden administration to order Bolsonaro out of country, as more information surfaces about his role in a wider plot to subvert Brazil’s election. While Brazilian authorities have so far said there are no grounds to request Bolsonaro’s extradition, recent developments in ongoing investigations into the Jan. 8 attacks have placed Bolsonaro at the heart of a plot to overturn last October’s election results.

Apparently seeking to make a comeback as the darling of the extreme right, Bolsonaro spoke at an event at a Trump golf course in Miami last Friday hosted by the far-right organization Turning Point USA. Some of Bolsonaro’s most prominent Brazilian supporters, such as YouTuber Allan dos Santos and businessman Paulo Figueiredo—once a business partner of Trump in Rio de Janeiro—are also based in the United States, engaging in Portuguese-language disinformation campaigns aimed at Brazilian audiences from U.S. soil.

The Biden administration has a responsibility to help fight ongoing threats to Brazil’s democracy. Many of the people spreading disinformation in Brazil are based in the United States—Bolsonaro included. They have also mostly spread their lies on U.S.-run social media sites—platforms that suffer a lack of oversight due to Washington’s failures to pass substantive tech regulations. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the continued failure to hold Trump legally accountable for the U.S. Capitol riot sends the message that anyone can use the Big Lie as a valid political strategy and get away with it.

The Biden administration must take a decisive stance on these issues. U.S. and Brazilian authorities should coordinate on not only Bolsonaro’s status but his supporters’ actions in U.S. territory. One U.S. law makes it a crime to organize or help an attempt to overthrow a government. But it is unclear whether this could apply to Bolsonaro and his followers. Can repeating a false claim about the legitimacy of an election be framed as an attempt to overthrow a government?

The White House should also pressure U.S. social media companies to better moderate foreign-language content and engage with foreign authorities on how best to curb threats to democracy in other countries. Research shows that Silicon Valley has failed to properly combat election-related disinformation in non-English languages. The bulk of Meta’s 2022 election-monitoring resources, for example, were geared toward the U.S. midterms, despite the Meta-owned WhatsApp having been central to the spread of election-related falsehoods in countries such as Brazil.

Finally, the U.S. Justice Department’s investigations into Trump must move forward. While Biden has rightly stayed away from the investigations to avoid the suggestion of political interference—and should continue to do so—their slow pace has cast doubt on whether justice will be achieved at all, particularly as Trump campaigns for the 2024 U.S. presidential election amid growing calls to “move on.” To the outside world, the message so far is that the main culprit of Jan. 6, 2021, is getting away with it—and political forces in Brazil are watching attentively.

The Brazilian justice system, by contrast, has moved more swiftly in the wake of the Jan. 8 attacks to combat anti-democratic forces. The day of the invasion, Lula ordered federal security services to intervene in Brasília. A few weeks later, Lula fired the head of the army who resisted punishing a military officer with close ties to Bolsonaro who is under investigation.

These steps notwithstanding, bilateral collaboration between Biden and Lula is essential to protect democracies worldwide. Today, the two leaders’ response must be strong and their message clear: We will not let the Big Lie become the new normal. Democracy will win.

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If Trump designates a MNNA in Africa, it will most likely be either Angola, or Tanzania.

Republicans don't like Ghana due to historical ties with African Americans, and Algeria due to its connection to Russia. Those will require a Democratic adminstration.

For South America, Peru is the likeliest option. Keiko Fujimori is expected to win in 2026.

UAE becoming a MNNA is still likely under Trump, even though Biden already gave them a similar, but lower ranking status.

For Asia, Malaysia, or Bangladesh might get the MNNA status.

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Keiko Fujimori: Asamblea Constituyente promovida por la izquierda "no pasará"

La lideresa de Fuerza Popular (FP), Keiko Fujimori, aseguró hoy que la Asamblea Constituyente promovida por las bancadas parlamentarias de izquierda, “no pasará”. “La mejor manera de homenajear a la patria es garantizando estabilidad para salir adelante. Desde Fuerza Popular aseguramos que la Asamblea Constituyente promovida por la izquierda no pasará”, escribió la excandidata presidencial en su…

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Keiko Fujimori: Asamblea Constituyente promovida por la izquierda "no pasará"

La lideresa de Fuerza Popular (FP), Keiko Fujimori, aseguró hoy que la Asamblea Constituyente promovida por las bancadas parlamentarias de izquierda, “no pasará”. “La mejor manera de homenajear a la patria es garantizando estabilidad para salir adelante. Desde Fuerza Popular aseguramos que la Asamblea Constituyente promovida por la izquierda no pasará”, escribió la excandidata presidencial en su…

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Un cambio en los noventa

Gracias, don Alberto Fujimori, por todos los años de esfuerzo que entregó a la Patria. Gracias por lograr que la muerte dejara de pisarnos los talones. Gracias por volver a poner un plato de comida en nuestras mesas. Tuve la dicha de crecer en un país donde el terrorismo ya no campeaba (y donde dejamos atrás como una pesadilla el periodo del primer gobierno del señor Alan García que nos sumió en la miseria, de lo cual se resarció en su segundo periodo) y en el que se recobró la tranquilidad y la alegría de vivir. Gracias a usted, mi padre y mis tíos volvieron a encontrar leche y azúcar en los mercados y a tener dinero que no se devaluaba en sus bolsillos, dejaron de preocuparse por la alimentación de los más pequeños en la casa. En el verano del año 2000 fui con mi padre y mi hermana al mitin de cierre de campaña que brindó en el Paseo de la República, recuerdo un mar de gente nunca visto en el que todos bailaban con banderas y globos. Esa noche fue una fiesta, teníamos la fe puesta en que usted nos siguiera gobernando y ni soñábamos con los nefastos gobiernos de Toledo (a cuyos militantes vi destrozar uno de los estrados fujimoristas en la plaza de Armas de Huaraz ese mismo año), de Humala, del psicópata y asesino Vizcarra o del incapaz Castillo, quien defraudó a los pobres y campesinos del país. Cuando escribí mi primera novela, fui con un ejemplar bajo el brazo al Cercado de Lima, donde su hija Keiko realizaba su mitin de cierre de campaña en el 2011, crucé como una flecha la plaza Dos de Mayo, donde Humala y sus partidarios se habían concentrado y llegué corriendo a la plaza Bolognesi. Vi que llegaba don Rafael Rey (candidato a la primera vicepresidencia en Fuerza 2011) al estrado y, como pude, me abrí paso a codazos entre la gente hasta llegar a su altura y entregarle el libro, el cual había autografiado para usted, don Alberto. Ya era de noche, don Rafael se volteó al tocarle yo el saco. Me tomó del mentón y dirigió mi rostro hacia la luz del poste más cercano, luego sonrió y me dijo que le entregaría el libro ese mismo fin de semana. Nadie que no se domine a sí mismo debe gobernar un país y usted aprendió a hacerlo desde muy niño. Nos ha dejado un legado de disciplina férrea, de trabajo hasta el agotamiento. Pero la lección más difícil de seguir que nos deja es no odiar a quienes nos odian. Lo dijo usted en su libro: “no he querido ni quejarme ni defenderme, desde un yo resentido, amargado o vengativo”. Esta lección es extremadamente difícil, pero hay q ue asimilarla si queremos construir una nación fuerte. Gracias por todo, perdón por tan poco. Descanse en paz.

Por Evelyn García Tirado