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By Christopher Minster, About.com Guide to Latin American History

Alberto Fujimori

Thursday May 15, 2008

Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Fujimori
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Who was Alberto Fujimori? Was he the brilliant scholar who saved Peru's economy from disaster? Was he the brave statesman who stood up to two different terrorist groups and brought them down? Was he the iron-fisted tyrant who dissolved his own Congress and Supreme Court? Or was he the criminal mastermind who oversaw a decade of corruption, possibly netting himself hundreds of millions of dollars? Even Peruvians can't seem to decide which is the real Alberto Fujimori.

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