Despite his convictions for corruption and human rights abuses, many see the president who has died at 86 as the country’s greatest leaderAt 11.45 on Thursday morning, six white-gloved pallbearers carried a coffin holding the body of the most divisive, beloved and reviled Peruvian politician of the last four decades. They passed the mourners, the cameras and the flag-topped lances of the Húsares de Junín cavalry regiment, and set it down in the hall of Lima’s brutalist culture ministry.Behind the coffin, holding hands and dressed in black under a pale but warm spring sky, came its occupant’s eldest daughter and youngest son. A crowd of ministers, political allies and military top brass awaited them at the ministry. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/transformative-for-better-and-for-worse-whats-the-legacy-of-perus-alberto-fujimori
Author : Dan Collyns in Lima and Sam Jones in Madrid
Publish date : 2024-09-14 19:37:36
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‘Transformative, for better and for worse’: what’s the legacy of Peru’s Alberto Fujimori
