Peru's Ex-President Dies in Suicide as Police Raid His Home

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-17/former-president-of-peru-shoots-self-in-head-as-police-close-in
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Former Peru President Alan Garcia’s suicide with police at his door Wednesday was a deadly turn in an aggressive continental corruption probe that has ensnared four of the nation’s former leaders.

The dramatic death of the longtime leftist underscores the scope of the Odebrecht affair, which has spawned bribery probes across Latin America and destabilized governments, above all in Peru. The Andean nation has endured grinding poverty and a stubborn Maoist insurgency. Its reckoning with graft at the highest levels could continue decades of dysfunction, or be a long first step toward cleaning up its government.

Garcia, a towering 69-year-old nicknamed Crazy Horse, served as president twice, living in exile between his administrations after accusations of graft. He returned only after the statute of limitations expired. On Wednesday, he was facing the prospect of prison for the first time.

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Was it really was suicide? We'll find out in time