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
One by one I will disprove the accusations, and I will restore my innocence and my honor,
I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
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.
You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.
One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.
The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.
Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.
And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.
We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't.
We have declared a total freeze on military movement,
This operation was planned down to the last millimeter,
We thought that the situation was deteriorating very quickly, ... All possibilities of a peaceful solution were exhausted.
With this peace, there is no loser but (only) winners,