Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), who died on Thursday as a result of cancer, has been given a farewell with honours and his remains are now resting in the Campo Fe cemetery in Huachipa, on the outskirts of Lima.
The Government of President Dina Boluarte has paid tribute to Fujimori in the Government Palace before his burial in the Campo Fe cemetery in Huachipa, where his remains are now resting, according to the newspaper ‘La República’.
The former president died on Thursday at the home of his daughter Keiko, located in the capital, Lima. Six people carried his coffin to house it inside a hearse that took it to the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture, where it remained until his posthumous tribute.
Fujimori won the 1989 Peruvian presidential election and just three years later, in collaboration with the Armed Forces, he staged a coup d’état that abolished the Constitution, closed Congress and seized the Palace of Justice.
His ten-year term was marked by several massacres, including those in Barrios Altos and La Cantuta – which earned him a prison sentence – as well as forced sterilizations of thousands of women and men, mostly indigenous.
Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison precisely for the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres, but in December 2023 he received a pardon granted on humanitarian grounds despite objections from the Inter-American courts.
In mid-July he was appointed presidential candidate for the 2026 elections by the Fuerza Popular party, founded by his daughter Keiko, who has repeatedly run unsuccessfully in the Peruvian elections.
