Do we like them?

Do we like Alberto Fujimori?

Our score: 0 out of 10. A court convicted him of ordering death-squad killings of 25 people, and the later sterilisation allegations were never resolved in court.

Fujimori ran Peru from 1990 to 2000 and died in September 2024 at 86. Supporters credit him with steadying the economy and beating the Shining Path insurgency, and that is the story his fans still tell. It is only half the ledger, and the other half is in a courtroom.

He was also convicted of corruption, according to the Associated Press. In 2017 he got a humanitarian pardon, which a court later annulled. In December 2023 Peru's constitutional court ordered his immediate humanitarian release and upheld the pardon, though a lower court had earlier said it lacked the authority to order it.

On the harm check, prosecutors accused him of being behind a 1990s programme in which many Indigenous women say they were forcibly sterilised, with five deaths and 1,301 other alleged victims. His lawyers argued he should not be tried in that case because it was outside his extradition from Chile. A 2021 judge ruling to that effect and a 2024 Supreme Court annulment of the process mean it was never decided in court. I found nothing on what he said about LGBTQ+ people or the climate.

The recent chapter is about the family name rather than the man. A Reuters analysis in May 2026 described Keiko Fujimori leaning on her father's legacy in the presidential runoff. Relatives of people killed by security forces have since announced protests over the start of her government.

On the good side, the record I could verify is political. Supporters credit him with economic stabilisation and defeating the insurgency, but I found no verified charity or kind acts, and that is honestly the whole list. The families of the massacre victims, meanwhile, have spent decades campaigning against impunity.

So there are two clean fails here. The harm test fails on his own acts as president, and the good-person test fails on a conviction for ordering killings plus a corruption conviction. Where the economy or terrorism sits in your thinking is your call, but we can't back him.