Peru’s President Pardons Alberto Fujimori, Enraging Critics<br />24, 2017<br />LIMA, Peru — Alberto Fujimori, who as Peru’s leader in the 1990s revived the economy and crushed two violent leftist insurgencies,<br />but was forced out in a corruption scandal and later imprisoned for human rights abuses, received a medical pardon on Sunday night, a decision that prompted an outcry across the Andean nation.<br />Marisa Glave said that There will be no peace, no democracy or justice when the pain of the family<br />members who are victims of the atrocities of Fujimori and Montesinos is not respected,<br />But a faction of her party — led by her younger brother, Kenji — split with Ms. Fujimori last week<br />and abstained, denying Mr. Kuczynski’s enemies the supermajority needed to remove him.<br />The younger brother had urged the pardon, so Mr. Kuczynski’s decision on Sunday was seen as a way of rewarding Kenji Fujimori for his help.<br />Marco Arana, a member of Congress from the leftist Broad Front party, condemned the pardon as a "slap in the face," saying it would polarize Peru.
