Fujimori, who was Peru's president from 1990 to 2000, was sentenced to 25 years in jail in 2009 for ordering the killings of 25 Peruvians during the bloody war with Maoist rebels in the 1990s. He was pardoned last year in light of his ill-health, including a tumour.
Peru protests: Almost since the moment last week when Dina Boluarte took over from the ousted leader Pedro Castillo to become Peru’s first female president, she has appealed for calm and a chance to govern, insisting that the caretaker job came to her out of circumstance, not personal ambition.
Lima: Ollanta Humala, the leftist military man who won Peru's presidency after abandoning a radical platform, promised in his inaugural address Thursday to make his priority the one in three Peruvians still mired in poverty.
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