{"id":14814,"date":"2019-04-17T19:38:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/perus-former-president-alan-garcia-dead-after-shooting-himself-before-arrest\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T19:38:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:38:34","slug":"perus-former-president-alan-garcia-dead-after-shooting-himself-before-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/perus-former-president-alan-garcia-dead-after-shooting-himself-before-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru’s Former President Alan Garc\u00eda Dead After Shooting Himself Before Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Alan Garc\u00eda, the former president of <a href=\"http:\/\/complex.com\/tag\/peru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peru<\/a>, has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/17\/americas\/alan-garcia-peru-shoots-himself-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN reports<\/a> that police were on their way to arrest the politician on Wednesday morning, but when they arrived at his home at 6:30 a.m. with a search warrant, a loud gunshot was heard. They eventually discovered Garc\u00eda\u00a0with a wound to\u00a0his head. He was taken to a hospital in Lima shortly after, and was pronounced dead\u00a0hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda had been accused of taking bribes from construction company Odebrecht during his time in office. He denied the claims vehemently, but Odebrecht admitted to paying approximately $30 million in bribes to the former president. Garc\u00eda served as president from 1985 to 1990, before returning for a second term from 2006 to 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peru’s current president, Mart\u00edn Vizcarra, paid his respects to Garc\u00eda in a tweet. “Dismayed by the death of former President Alan Garc\u00eda,” he wrote. “I send my condolences to his family and loved ones.”<\/p>\n<div class=\"embeddedContent oembed-provider- oembed-provider-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p> <\/p>\n<p>Consternado por el fallecimiento del ex presidente Alan Garc\u00eda. Env\u00edo mis condolencias a su familia y seres queridos.<\/p>\n<p> <br \/>\n\u2014 Mart\u00edn Vizcarra (@MartinVizcarraC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartinVizcarraC\/status\/1118537029405614083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Odebrecht, the company that reportedly bribed Garc\u00eda, is\u00a0one of the biggest construction companies in the world. It previously worked on the 2016 Olympics and the 2014 World Cup. Two other former presidents are embroiled in the scandal, with Ollanta Humala and Alejandro Toledo both accused of taking money from Odebrecht. Humala is currently in pre-trial detention in Peru, while Toledo is a fugitive in the U.S.<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"><span class=\"advertisement_text featured\">POST CONTINUES BELOW<\/span><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2019\/04\/ex-peru-president-alan-garcia-dead\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Garc\u00eda, the former president of Peru, has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. CNN reports that police were on their way to arrest the politician on Wednesday morning, but when they arrived at his home at 6:30 a.m. with a search warrant, a loud gunshot was heard. They eventually discovered Garc\u00eda\u00a0with a wound to\u00a0his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,111,572,5,271,7,8,4413,275,3149,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrests","category-dfp-politics","category-dfp-politics-other","category-featured","category-guns","category-music","category-news","category-peru","category-shooting","category-suicide","category-tier-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14816,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14814\/revisions\/14816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}