Susana Higuchi
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Susana Higuchi | |
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スサーナ・ヒグチ (樋口 静子) | |
Pilar Nores de García | |
Succeeded by | Keiko Fujimori |
Personal details | |
Born | Susana Shizuko Higuchi Miyagawa 26 April 1950 Lima, Peru |
Died | 8 December 2021 Lima, Peru | (aged 71)
Political party | FIM (until 2006) |
Spouse | |
Children | 4, including Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería |
Website | Official site |
Susana Shizuko Higuchi Miyagawa (26 April 1950 – 8 December 2021) was a Peruvian politician and engineer. She served as
Higuchi was elected as a member of the Independent Moralizing Front (Frente Independiente Moralizador, FIM), a reformist political party allied with then president Alejandro Toledo, in both the 2000 and 2001 general elections. She served as a member of the Congress for two terms from 2000 to 2006,
Early life
Of Japanese descent, Higuchi was born in
Career
After marrying Fujimori, she opened the company Construcciones Fuji, often directing workers in her daily outfit of a regular shirt, jeans and boots.[2] At this time, she was the primary income-earner in the family as Fujimori earned a modest professor salary, creating an unequal and strained relationship.[2]
First Lady of Peru
As first lady during her husband's presidency, Higuchi was among the early people in Peru to allege criminal misdoings on the part of her husband. As early as 1992, she denounced several of her Fujimori in-laws for corruption in connection, especially Juana and Rosa Fujimori, alleging Fujimori's sisters sold used clothing donated by Japan for millions of dollars.
In 1994, she publicly condemned her husband as a tyrant and his government as corrupt. Fujimori reacted by formally stripping her of the title
Because of her outspokenness, Higuchi was subjected to repeated efforts to silence her. Peru's media, which operated in accordance to President Fujimori, also ignored stories regarding the alleged abuses against Higuchi.
In July 2001, she alleged that in 1990, shortly before coming to power, her ex-husband received a donation of US$12.5 million from Japanese citizens destined for poor children in Peru, but he deposited it in a private bank account in Japan.[4]
Personal life
Higuchi married Alberto Fujimori on 25 July 1974[2] and formally divorced him in 1995.[5] They have four children: Keiko Sofía, Hiro Alberto, Sachi Marcela, and Kenji Gerardo.[citation needed] Higuchi died of cancer in 2021.
References
- ^ "Falleció Susana Higuchi, exesposa de Alberto Fujimori, a los 71 años". Perú.21. 2021-12-08. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- ^ ISBN 9786124818868.
- ^ "Fujimori counters ex-wife's torture claim". Japan Weekly Monitor. 2002-03-04. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- The Miami Herald. 2001-07-12. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ "APRUEBAN DIVORCIO DE LOS FUJIMORI EN PERÚ". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1995-11-18. Retrieved 2023-06-24.