Keiko Fujimori
| Keiko Fujimori 藤森 恵子 |
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| President of Popular Force | |
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Assumed office 9 March 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Member of Congress | |
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In office 26 July 2006 – 26 July 2011 |
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| Constituency | Lima |
| First Lady of Peru | |
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In role 23 August 1994 – 22 November 2000 |
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| President | Alberto Fujimori |
| Preceded by | Susana Higuchi |
| Succeeded by | Nilda Jara de Paniagua |
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Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi 25 May 1975 Lima, Peru |
| Political party | Popular Force (2010–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Alliance for the Future (2006–2010) |
| Spouse(s) | Mark Villanella |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
Stony Brook University Boston University Columbia University |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkeiko soˈfi.a fuxiˈmoɾi iˈɣutʃi]; Japanese: 藤森 恵子, Fujimori Keiko Japanese: [ɸɯdʑimoɺi kéːko] or [ɸɯdʑimoɾi kéːko]; born May 25, 1975) is a daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Susana Higuchi. She served as First Lady, from 1994 to 2000, becoming the youngest First Lady in the history of the Americas. She then became a member of the Peruvian legislature. Fujimori leads the right-wing party Fuerza Popular, and was their presidential candidate in the 2011 election runoff and the 2016 election runoff, losing both times, the 2016 election being a very close call, with the final count difference of less than 0.25%.
Keiko Fujimori graduated from Peru's Catholic School (Recoleta Academy of the Sacred Hearts) in 1992. The following year, she travelled to the United States to pursue a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. She began her studies at Stony Brook University, and graduated in 1997 from Boston University. She received her M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in 2006.
Her parents divorced in 1994. Her mother, Higuchi, said that she was subjected to repeated efforts to silence her accusations of corruption involving her Husband, President Fujimori, and his close relatives with donations from Japan. In 2001, Higuchi told investigators probing the corruption of the Fujimori years that she had been tortured "five hundred times" by the intelligence services of the Peruvian Army. and told the press that President Fujimori had ordered for her to be killed, to which the president's right hand, Vladimiro Montesinos had refused on the ground of being a devout catholic Her father denied that Higuchi had been tortured. He said the scars on her back and neck were not from torture but from a traditional Japanese herbal treatment called moxibustion. In August 1994, after the divorce of her parents, Keiko was appointed First Lady of Peru. At 19 years of age and still a student., From April 1994 to November 2000, she assumed the administration of Fundación por los Niños del Perú (Foundation for the Children of Peru), and created Fundación Peruana Cardioinfantil (Peruvian Foundation for Infant Cardiology), which she presided from 1996 to 2006, and dedicated her activities to help low-income families nationwide. She summoned the Peruvian business community to contribute to her social projects.
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