Garcia was suspected in a continent-wide corruption scandal
Left-wing populist presided over an economic collapse in his first term before embracing free-market policies in his secondPeru's late former president Alan Garcia talks to supporters in Lima, Peru, October 30 2015. Picture: REUTERS/JANINE COSTA
“President Garcia made the decision of a free man,’’ Mauricio Mulder, a legislator with Garcia’s Apra party, told reporters outside the hospital. “For we Apristas, who are his family, it’s an act of dignity and honor in the face of a fascist, sick, persecution.’’ On Wednesday, prosecutors and police came to his Lima home for a search. Garcia went into his bedroom on the second floor, saying he was going to call his lawyer, Peru’s interior minister Carlos Moran said. A few minutes later a shot was heard.
Probes into campaign donations and bribes Odebrecht paid have embroiled Peru’s past four presidents and stalled major infrastructure projects, slowing its economy.
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