Peru’s former president whose violent policies defined an era is dead

Alberto Fujimori was the son of Japanese immigrants and went on to lead Peru though an economic crisis and bloody leftist uprisings against the government. The World’s Marco Werman talks about Fujimori’s legacy with José Ragas, an assistant professor at the history department at Universidad Catolica de Chile, who wrote a book called, “The Fujimori Years.”

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