Politics
Peru's Ex-President Dies in Suicide as Police Raid His Home
- Alan Garcia led country twice before becoming mired in scandal
- Suspected of taking bribe from construction giant Odebrecht
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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.