Former First Lady Susana Higuchi passed away on Wednesday at a local clinic, her daughter Keiko Fujimori has reported.
Via social media, Fujimori Higuchi indicated that her mother's death came after an illness.
"After a tough struggle with cancer, our mother Susana Higuchi has just left to meet God. She was surrounded by the love of us, her children and her grandchildren, until the last moment. We entrust her to the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception today on her day," she said via Twitter.
Higuchi, who was the wife of former President Alberto Fujimori, served as Peru's First Lady between 1990 and 1994.
In 1992, she denounced to the media that Alberto's sister, Rosa Fujimori, in complicity with her husband Victor Aritomi used to traffic clothes donated by Japan.
In 1994, she divorced Fujimori and was replaced as First Lady by daughter Keiko Fujimori. Years later, she reported having been kidnapped and tortured at the Pentagonito (Little Pentagon or Army General Headquarters in Lima) by order of her ex-husband.
The civil engineer first ran for a seat in Congress in 1995. However, her registration was invalidated. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights later concluded that her rights had been violated.
Higuchi was elected congresswoman for the 2000-2005 period after running with the Frente Inpendiente Moralizador (Independent Moralizing Front party). Nonetheless, her initial period at Congress was short because, following the fall of her ex-husband's government, said parliamentary period ended in 2001.
Yet she was reelected with the same party for the 2001-2006 period.
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