LIMA, Peru (AP) — The first photograph showed an ugly open sore near the tip of Alberto Fujimori’s tongue. In the second, a palid Fujimori lay in bed in a white T-shirt, hair tousled, looking ghastly.

Last week, a third image of the jailed ex-president, a smiling self-portrait, began to circulate. Like its two predecessors, it quickly saturated Peru’s news media and social networks, where new Facebook pages had emerged to supplement several already dedicated to winning his freedom.