Background
Fujimori was born on 28 July 1938, in Miraflores, a district of Lima.
Fujimori was born on 28 July 1938, in Miraflores, a district of Lima.
He studied in Europe and later attended the University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA). Obtained degrees in Agricultural Sciences and Engineering, teaching in the Agrarian University of Peru before becoming its rector and president of the Assembly of University Rectors.
During the election campaign, made a special appeal to voters in rural, indigenous, mestizos and the lower classes, who distrusted Vargas Llosa's relationship with the country's elite and could believe in the populist program of Fujimori. Both said they would end the disastrous economic situation in Peru, which was complicated by the devastation caused by the terrorist attacks of Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). His program was based on economic development and improving the living conditions of farmers. He won the runoff election with 60% of the vote, the largest majority ever achieved by a candidate in Peru, making him the first person of Japanese descent who ruled the country.
Following his election, was able to overcome the resistance of the opposition to meet the terms set by the International Monetary elFondo, to enable Peru to the loans, and established relations with Japan, hoping to get loans from that country. Its economic stabilization program decreased the rate of inflation, but failed to improve the Peruvian economy weakened. In April 1992, dissolved Congress, canceled some points of the Constitution and arrested political opponents, arguing that all these measures were designed to combat the Shining Path and the drug traffickers.
In September, the leader of the Shining Path, Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, was captured, tried and sentenced to life imprisonment. On November 13, it foiled a coup attempt, and on 22 November, elected a new Congress. The majority party, known as New Majority-Change 90, remained in power Fujimori, who was re-elected in the presidential elections of April 1995 as against the candidacy of former Secretary General of the United Nations Organization (UN), Javier Perez de Cuellar, having achieved a constitutional amendment allowing him to repeat mandate.
A serious crisis came again to his government when, in December 1996, a command Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) stormed the Japanese Embassy in Lima holding a large number of hostages to ask for their release of prisoners belonging to the organization. On 11 February the following year, negotiations resumed between the government and the MRTA (then still retained 72 people), broken since Dec. 28, and 2 and March 3 traveled to the Dominican Republic and Cuba exile to try to negotiate the MRTA assailants. Finally, on April 22, Peruvian Army troops personally led by Fujimori himself, took by assault the embassy, ending the lives of 14 members of the MRTA and freeing 71 of the 72 hostages.
He resigned in November 2000 during a trip to Japan.
In the general election of 1990 was one of the candidates for president of Peru in front of a group he founded, Cambio 90, which won in the first round about 29% of the votes, and second, after the writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who won 34% of the vote.
He was maeeied twice: Susana Higuchi (1974-1994) and Satomi Kataoka and has 4 children: Hiro Alberto, Sachi Marcela, Kenji Fujimori and Keiko Fujimori.