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    Commentary: Organized crime threatens Latin America’s democracies and fuels migration. The US can help

    by Will Freeman, Los Angeles Times Jan 04, 2024 4 minutes
    Former Peru's President Alberto Fujimori, right, upon his release from the Barbadillo prison in the eastern outskirts of Lima, on Dec. 6, 2023.

    Peru’s last dictator, Alberto Fujimori, has pulled off a jailbreak years in the making — not by tunneling his way out of prison but by the graces of the country’s highest court. His early release in December is part of a broader problem in Latin America, where the line between governments and crime keeps getting blurrier.

    The 85-year-old Fujimori was a little more than halfway through a 25-year sentence for greenlighting extrajudicial killings and kidnappings and embezzling $15 million during his decade-long rule, which ended in 2000. But Peru’s Constitutional Court was apparently unbothered by his unpaid debt to society. The court

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