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12-25-2017, 05:04 AM
LIMA: Peru?s former President Alberto Fujimori was rushed from prison to a local hospital by ambulance late on Saturday after suffering a severe drop in blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythm that put him at risk of dying, Fujimori´s doctor said.
Cardiologists recommended that he be removed from prison immediately, Alejandro Aguinaga said. ?It looks complicated,? he told journalists gathered outside the hospital. Fujimori, 79, is serving a 25-year sentence for graft and human rights crimes.
He is a deeply divisive figure in Peru. While many consider him a corrupt dictator, others credit him with ending an economic crisis and bloody leftist insurgency during his 1990-2000 term. The medical emergency will likely heap pressure on center-right President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to free the former leader, a move that could rewrite political alliances and spark protests in one of Latin America´s most stable economies.
Three days earlier, a faction of Fujimori´s supporters in Congress unexpectedly saved Kuczynski from a motion that would have forced him from office less than two years into his five-year-term. The opposition said Kuczynski only survived the vote by promising 10 lawmakers that he would free Fujimori if they backed him. Kuczynski´s government denies the allegations. Fujimori fled Peru for his parent´s native Japan as his government imploded in a graft scandal at the turn of the century.
He was eventually extradited to Peru and was convicted for leading death squads that massacred civilians. Despite Fujimori´s downfall, the rightwing populist movement Fujimori started in the 1990s remains one of the country´s most potent political forces.His two adult children, Keiko and Kenji, lead rival factions of the rightwing party, Popular Force, that controls a majority of seats in Congress and pushed to oust Kuczynski this week. Over the past year, Kenji has challenged his sister Keiko´s leadership and he has led calls for his release, which could give him a boost if he is freed.
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Cardiologists recommended that he be removed from prison immediately, Alejandro Aguinaga said. ?It looks complicated,? he told journalists gathered outside the hospital. Fujimori, 79, is serving a 25-year sentence for graft and human rights crimes.
He is a deeply divisive figure in Peru. While many consider him a corrupt dictator, others credit him with ending an economic crisis and bloody leftist insurgency during his 1990-2000 term. The medical emergency will likely heap pressure on center-right President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to free the former leader, a move that could rewrite political alliances and spark protests in one of Latin America´s most stable economies.
Three days earlier, a faction of Fujimori´s supporters in Congress unexpectedly saved Kuczynski from a motion that would have forced him from office less than two years into his five-year-term. The opposition said Kuczynski only survived the vote by promising 10 lawmakers that he would free Fujimori if they backed him. Kuczynski´s government denies the allegations. Fujimori fled Peru for his parent´s native Japan as his government imploded in a graft scandal at the turn of the century.
He was eventually extradited to Peru and was convicted for leading death squads that massacred civilians. Despite Fujimori´s downfall, the rightwing populist movement Fujimori started in the 1990s remains one of the country´s most potent political forces.His two adult children, Keiko and Kenji, lead rival factions of the rightwing party, Popular Force, that controls a majority of seats in Congress and pushed to oust Kuczynski this week. Over the past year, Kenji has challenged his sister Keiko´s leadership and he has led calls for his release, which could give him a boost if he is freed.
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