LIMA ¨C Peru¡¯s former president Alberto Fujimori was rushed from prison to a local hospital by ambulance late Saturday after suffering a severe drop in blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythm that put him at risk of dying, Fujimori¡¯s doctor said.
Cardiologists recommended that he be removed from prison immediately, physician and politician Alejandro Aguinaga said. ¡°It looks complicated,¡± he told journalists gathered outside the hospital.
Fujimori, 79, is serving a 25-year sentence for graft and human rights crimes. He is a deeply divisive figure in Peru. While many consider him a corrupt dictator, others credit him with ending an economic crisis and bloody leftist insurgency during his 1990-2000 term.
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