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Fallece Alberto Fujimori, expresidente peruano controvertido y divisible

A las 11.45 de la mañana del jueves, seis portadores con guantes blancos 7️⃣ llevaron un ataúd que contenía el cuerpo del político peruano más divisivo, amado y vituperado de las últimas cuatro décadas. 7️⃣ Pasaron ante los dolientes, las cámaras y las lanzas con banderas del regimiento de Húsares de Junín, y lo dejaron 7️⃣ en el vestíbulo del ministerio de Cultura de Lima, un edificio brutalista.

Detrás del ataúd, con las manos entrelazadas y vestidos 7️⃣ de luto bajo un cielo primaveral suave pero cálido, vinieron su hija mayor y su hijo menor. Una multitud de 7️⃣ ministros, aliados políticos y altos mandos militares los esperaban en las puertas dobles del ministerio.

Así comenzaron tres días de luto 7️⃣ nacional en honor de Alberto Fujimori, el político que sorprendentemente se convirtió en presidente del Perú de 1990 a 2000 7️⃣ y que, nueve años después, fue ordenado a cumplir una sentencia de 25 años por autorizar secuestros y asesinatos durante 7️⃣ su "guerra contra el terrorismo".

El hecho de que Fujimori, quien murió de cáncer a los 86 años el miércoles, recibiera 7️⃣ el tipo de funeral no visto desde el funeral de 2024 del exsecretario general de la ONU peruano Javier Pérez 7️⃣ de Cuéllar, puede haber enojado a muchos en el país sudamericano, pero vino como poca sorpresa.

Después de todo, la vida 7️⃣ y el legado de Fujimori - quien fue indultado y liberado de la cárcel solo 10 meses antes - es 7️⃣ quizás el tema más amargo y disputado en el Perú contemporáneo.

Para muchos, siempre será el autócrata cínico cuya corrupción, hambre 7️⃣ de poder y desprecio por los derechos humanos envenenaron la nación. Para otros, siempre será el outsider político que, de 7️⃣ alguna manera, logró derrotar las plagas del terrorismo y la hiperinflación.

Aquellos en el último campamento eran evidentes en las calles 7️⃣ fuera del ministerio de Cultura el jueves, donde hacían cola, aplaudían y lloraban mientras recordaban al hombre cariñosamente conocido como 7️⃣ "El Chino", mientras que las coronas florales enviadas por la élite empresarial del país se apilaban.

"Está recibiendo los honores que 7️⃣ merece porque fue el mejor presidente en la historia del Perú", dijo Milagros Parra, de 54 años, quien había venido 7️⃣ con compañeros del vecindario San Juan de Lurigancho en las afueras de Lima.

"Heredó un país lleno de sangre con una 7️⃣ hiperinflación masiva. Tenemos que agradecerle."

Fujimori, el hijo de inmigrantes japoneses, fue el candidato casi desconocido que se postuló contra el 7️⃣ novelista peruano - y futuro ganador del Premio Nobel - Mario Vargas Llosa en las elecciones de 1990, que se 7️⃣ llevaron a cabo después de casi una década del terrorismo de Sendero Luminoso y años de agitación económica.

Con Vargas Llosa 7️⃣ percibido como otro candidato de la elite blanca y centrada en Lima de Perú, Fujimori, ingeniero agrícola y matemático educado 7️⃣ en Francia y Estados Unidos, capitalizó su atractivo para los peruanos comunes al conducir un tractor y prometer "honestidad, tecnología, 7️⃣ trabajo".

La propuesta funcionó y Fujimori ganó. Sus reformas económicas drásticas y la desregulación de la economía peruana apelaron a la 7️⃣ elite empresarial, mientras que los programas para construir escuelas, carreteras y puentes en comunidades pobres, abandonadas, ganaron votos y apoyo 7️⃣ de por vida.

Como resultado, dijo José Alejandro Godoy, autor de dos libros sobre Fujimori, "tanto los sectores ricos como los 7️⃣ pobres continúan siendo las principales bases de apoyo para él y el movimiento político que fundó".

Pero, enfrentado con el caos 7️⃣ económico y el terrorismo desde el principio, Fujimori gobernó con una mano cada vez más autoritaria en connivencia con su 7️⃣ jefe de inteligencia, Vladimiro Montesinos, un abogado corrupto y exsoldado que le ofreció el control de la judicatura y las 7️⃣ fuerzas armadas.

Emboldened by broad public support, Fujimori embarked on the "war against terrorism" that eventually crushed the Shining Path insurgency 7️⃣ and then the smaller Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, which made headlines when it took hostages during a party at the 7️⃣ Japanese ambassador's residence in December 1996. The capture in 1992 of the Shining Path's leader, Abimael Guzmán, proved a major 7️⃣ coup – the much-feared terrorist mastermind was paraded in a cage in prison stripes – as did the operation that 7️⃣ ended the siege at the Japanese ambassador's residence in April 1997.

Desperate for an end to the bloodshed – the country's 7️⃣ truth and reconciliation commission would later establish that 69,280 people were killed between 1980 and 2000, 54% of them by 7️⃣ the Shining Path – many Peruvians supported Fujimori's "by any means necessary" tactics.

In the early 1990s, Fujimori holed up in 7️⃣ the intelligence service headquarters from where he directed a dirty war using a death squad, the Grupo Colina, to carry 7️⃣ out massacres for which he was eventually convicted and jailed for 25 years in 2009 in a landmark trial against 7️⃣ a former head of state.

These crimes, which included the murder of an eight-year-old boy and a string of other human 7️⃣ rights violations, turned a large sector of public opinion against Fujimori, as did increasing revelations of corruption.

But it took time. 7️⃣ Even when he dissolved congress in 1992, allied himself with the military and co-opted the institutions to rewrite the constitution, 7️⃣ allowing him to run for re-election, he still had broad support.

With a chokehold on power, he gutted and corrupted public 7️⃣ institutions and, via Montesinos, controlled a significant part of the press that trashed his opponents through tabloids known as the 7️⃣ prensa chicha.

He perfected the use of "fake news" to control and subjugate the population

"He perfected the use of 'fake news' 7️⃣ to control and subjugate the population," said Jo-Marie Burt, professor of political science at George Mason University and a senior 7️⃣ fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America.

Things finally began to fall apart towards the end of his second term 7️⃣ when he began pushing for a third mandate using much of the apparatus of a co-opted state. Protests against his 7️⃣ regime grew until they became daily in Lima and, after an election in 2000 that was beset with allegations of 7️⃣ ballot-rigging – and the emergence of videos that showed Montesinos bribing lawmakers with stacks of cash – Peruvians tired of 7️⃣ the Fujimori government and its graft.

Soon after, on an official trip to Asia, Fujimori fled to Japan, his parents' homeland, 7️⃣ and resigned the presidency by fax. But Peru's congress rejected his resignation and, instead, stripped him of the presidency, arguing 7️⃣ that he was "morally unfit" to be head of state.

With Fujimori in disgrace and, latterly, in prison, it was left 7️⃣ to his daughter, Keiko, who had been his first lady since 1994 when her parents separated, to defend and perpetuate 7️⃣ her father's legacy. Today, Keiko, who has finished second in the past three presidential elections, remains the standard bearer for 7️⃣ the political force known, after her father, as fujimorismo – a viciously divisive movement that has contorted Peruvian politics since 7️⃣ he won power.

Fujimori may be dead, but experts say his shadow lingers – and will continue to do so for 7️⃣ a while yet. Hundreds of thousands of women and men – many poor and Indigenous – are still seeking justice 7️⃣ after being forcibly sterilised under his presidency.

For Godoy, the late president "degraded Peruvian politics to extremes rarely seen in national 7️⃣ history" and can be considered the father of the "competitive authoritarianism" seen today in El Salvador under Nayib Bukele.

The author 7️⃣ Michael Reid describes Fujimori as "a transformative president for better and for worse".Although many, unsurprisingly, associate the late president with 7️⃣ human rights violations and the poisoning of democracy, Reid points out that "most poorer Peruvians look back on Fujimori as 7️⃣ somebody who saved the country and somebody who improved their lives and the economy" during a time of crisis.

But, he 7️⃣ added, Fujimori "introduced corruption as an instrument of rule and I think that was immensely damaging ... Above all, his 7️⃣ legacy, sadly, has been one of dividing Peruvians because he did rule as an autocrat from 1992 to 2000."

As Peru 7️⃣ digs in for the mourning period and the many memories it will stir up, some have noted that, in a 7️⃣ quirk of fate, Fujimori died exactly three years to the day after his terrorist nemesis Guzmán died in a military 7️⃣ hospital , also at the age of 86.

Some have even dared to imagine that the coincidence might herald a better 7️⃣ future for a country desperately in need of a break with its recent past.

"And so Alberto Fujimori dies on the 7️⃣ same day as Abimael Guzmán," the Peruvian writer Santiago Roncagliolo wrote on X. "Let's hope this is an omen for 7️⃣ an era with neither terrorists nor dictators. Let's hope the universe is saying that Peru can be a democracy."