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Alan García
president of Peru
Quick Facts
- In full:
- Alan García Pérez
- Died:
- April 17, 2019, Lima (aged 69)
- Title / Office:
- president (2006-2011), Peru
- president (1985-1990), Peru
- Political Affiliation:
- APRA
Alan García (born May 23, 1949, Lima, Peru—died April 17, 2019, Lima) was a Peruvian politician who twice served as president of Peru (1985–90; 2006–11). García studied at Pontifical Catholic University in Lima and earned a law degree (1971) from the Main National University of San Marcos of Lima. After several years of additional study in Madrid and Paris, he returned to Peru, where in 1976 he joined the centre-left American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA). Remarkably gifted as a public speaker and highly charismatic, García enjoyed rapid success as a politician, being elected to Congress in 1980 and becoming his ...(100 of 660 words)