Peru’s President Pardons Alberto Fujimori, Enraging Critics
24, 2017
LIMA, Peru — Alberto Fujimori, who as Peru’s leader in the 1990s revived the economy and crushed two violent leftist insurgencies,
but was forced out in a corruption scandal and later imprisoned for human rights abuses, received a medical pardon on Sunday night, a decision that prompted an outcry across the Andean nation.
Marisa Glave said that There will be no peace, no democracy or justice when the pain of the family
members who are victims of the atrocities of Fujimori and Montesinos is not respected,
But a faction of her party — led by her younger brother, Kenji — split with Ms. Fujimori last week
and abstained, denying Mr. Kuczynski’s enemies the supermajority needed to remove him.
The younger brother had urged the pardon, so Mr. Kuczynski’s decision on Sunday was seen as a way of rewarding Kenji Fujimori for his help.
Marco Arana, a member of Congress from the leftist Broad Front party, condemned the pardon as a "slap in the face," saying it would polarize Peru.