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Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez was born in Lima on May 23, 1949, into a middle-class Aprista family. His mother, Nytha Pérez Rojas, was the founder of the political group "APRA".

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He joins the Youth Aprista Federation

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President Francisco Morales Bermúdez called the Constituent Assembly to promulgate the new Carta Magna. Haya de la Torre and García Pérez were elected to join it.

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He is elected deputy for Lima, from where he opposed the government of Fernando Belaunde.

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On February 12 of that year, he was elected APRA's presidential candidate, after a vote by direct and secret vote of the party's rank and file.

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With the resignation of Alfonso Barrantes in the second round, Alan García was declared the winner of the presidential elections.

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Economic mismanagement, uncontrollable inflation, led the International Monetary Fund to declare Peru as a value impaired country in 1986. Three years later, hyperinflation reached 2.775%. The currency was changed twice because it lost value quickly.

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He handed over the presidency to Fujimori and after the self-coup of April 5, he entered the residence of the Colombian ambassador in Peru to request some political asylum, which was granted to him by César Gaviria.

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The Supreme Court of Justice of Peru declared the crimes charged against Alan García, who returned to Peru to participate in the general elections, prescribed. He was defeated in the second round by Alejandro Toledo.

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He wins the general elections again in the second round. he continued the economic course of Toledo and exercised a policy of austerity with the inauguration of important public works.

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During the Humala government, the nationalist parliamentarian Sergio Tejada formed a mega commission in Congress that for five years investigated the alleged irregularities of the second government of Alan García.

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He ran unsuccessfully in the general elections in search of a third term, but this time in alliance with Lourdes Flores, of the political group "PPC". However, he obtained only 6% of the votes.

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Carlos Nostre, an Odebrecht executive, declared to peruvian prosecutors that the company paid $ 24 million in bribes for Line 1 of the Lima Metro.

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Alan García, who lived in Spain, arrived in Peru to be questioned by the prosecutor Domingo Pérez. But the prosecutor suspended the interrogation, after learning new indications that García had received a payment from Odebrecht.

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Judge Carlos Sánchez Balbuena issued an 18-month bar to exit against García, at the request of the prosecutor Domingo Pérez.

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Alan García officially requested asylum from the Uruguayan government.

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The peruvian government gave Uruguay a report on the legal situation of Alan García, in order for it to consider avoiding the possibility of asylum. The former Aprista president insisted that there was a political persecution against him.

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The Judiciary ordered the arrest of Alan García for the Odebrecht case. To avoid arrest, he locked himself in a room in his house and shot himself in the head. He was immediately transferred to the Casimiro Ulloa hospital, where he died at 10:05 a.m.