Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in a disgrace, has died. He was 86.

Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori arrives for the reading of a verdict on charges of embezzling state funds and using them to manipulate the media, at a police base in Lima on January 8, 2015.

Alberto Fujimori, the former Peruvian president who has died aged 86, was to his supporters the man who saved Peru from the evils of terrorism and economic collapse; to his detractors, he was a ...

Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in autocratic excess that later sent him to prison, has died.

LIMA, Peru—Alberto Fujimori, the former Peruvian president whose 1990s-era government crushed Maoist rebels and revived a battered economy but descended into authoritarianism and corruption ...

FILE – Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori is seen gesturing on a screen during the first day of his trial on charges of alleged human rights violations and corruption during his ...

Peru’s jailed, former President Alberto Fujimori, photographed through a glass window, attends his trial at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru in 2016.

FILE – Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori is seen gesturing on a screen during the first day of his trial on charges of alleged human rights violations and corruption during his ...

FILE – Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori is seen gesturing on a screen during the first day of his trial on charges of alleged human rights violations and corruption during his ...

FILE – Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori is seen gesturing on a screen during the first day of his trial on charges of alleged human rights violations and corruption during his ...

FILE – Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori is seen gesturing on a screen during the first day of his trial on charges of alleged human rights violations and corruption during his ...

FILE – Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori is seen gesturing on a screen during the first day of his trial on charges of alleged human rights violations and corruption during his ...