CNN —Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has died at the age of 86 after a long battle with cancer, his daughter Keiko Fujimori said Wednesday night.
“After a long battle with cancer, our father, Alberto Fujimori, has just departed to meet the Lord.
We ask those who loved him to accompany us with a prayer for the eternal rest of his soul,” Keiko Fujimori wrote on X.Fujimori, who ruled Peru from 1990 to 2000, had been fighting for his health, his primary care physician Alejandro Aguinaga said earlier on Wednesday in brief statements to reporters outside the home of Keiko Fujimori.
After the pair divorced, Fujimori installed the couple’s eldest daughter Keiko as Peru’s first lady ahead of his second term.
Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori speaks during an interview with the Asahi Shimbun newspaper on June 7, 1994, in Tokyo, Japan.
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