His positions on the economy and illegal immigration, plus a sense that a strong leader was needed are some of the reasons.

On Wednesday, October 23, a mass strike took place against the government of President Dina Boluarte and the Peruvian ...

Those fearing an impending dictatorship underestimate the robustness of our institutions and overstate the power of any ...

Peru’s forced sterilisation policy could constitute a crime against humanity, a United Nations committee has said. More than ...

A UN committee urged Peru Wednesday to compensate women who were forcibly sterilised in the 1990s, ruling that the state policy could constitute a "crime against humanity".

These principles can serve as guides for educators—and leaders across a broad spectrum of fields—in the days after a chaotic ...

In the past, Democrats have labelled the late Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori’s war against the Communist terrorist group Shining Path as a violation of human rights. Another act of Joe Biden upon ...

Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s controversial former president, buried after 3 days of national mourning Gutiérrez, who himself was never disciplined, told reporters in 2015 that liberation theology as a ...

squeaking to victory by just 50,000 votes over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter and political heir to former dictator Alberto Fujimori. In a country still deeply divided between racial, geographic ...

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori left office in 2000 when he became engulfed in a major corruption scandal and went into self-imposed exile in Japan. He memorably faxed in his resignation, ...

Toledo is set to join them. Last year, NPR reported that the facility was full. The late Alberto Fujimori, who governed from 1990 to 2000, served a sentence there on charges that included human ...

Likewise, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000) opened up his country’s Amazon to small-, medium-, and large-scale agriculture and promoted foreign investment in the area.