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FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, Peru's President Alan García smiles during the opening ceremony of Expo Peru 2008 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Current Peruvian President Martinez Vizcarra said Garcia, the 69-year-old former head of state died Wednesday, April 17, 2019, after undergoing emergency surgery in Lima. Garcia shot himself in the head early Wednesday as police came to detain him in connection with a corruption probe. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Peru faced down terrorism, insurgencies and prevailed in spite of its leadership

By Ike Brannon

A woman carrying a photograph of Peru's late President Alan Garcia waits with others outside Garcia's political party headquarters where his wake is taking place in Lima, Peru, Friday, April 19, 2019. Garcia shot himself in the head and died Wednesday as officers waited to arrest him in a massive graft probe that has put the country's most prominent politicians behind bars and provoked a reckoning over corruption. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peruvians gather for funeral of former president Alan Garcia

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A supporter holds up an image of Peru's late President Alan Garcia on the second day of his wake at his party's headquarters in Lima, Peru, Thursday, April 18, 2019. Garcia shot himself in the head and died Wednesday as officers waited to arrest him in a massive graft probe that has put the country's most prominent politicians behind bars and provoked a reckoning over corruption. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Peru ponders corruption probe’s cost after shocking suicide

By FRANKLIN BRICENO and CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2010 file photo, Peru's then President Alan Garcia, attends a meeting in the Port of Ilo, southern Peru. Garcia said Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, he would cooperate with prosecutors investigating him for corruption after Uruguay turned down his asylum request and forced him to leave the residence of its ambassador to the Andean nation. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)

Uruguay rejects Peru Ex-President Garcia’s asylum request

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 17, 2011 file photo, Peru's outgoing President Alan Garcia waves to the press during a meeting with Peru's President-elect Ollanta Humala at the government palace in Lima, Peru. Peru’s government said in a Nov. 18, 2018 statement that the former president is seeking asylum in Uruguay days after a prosecutor sought to retain his passport as part of a corruption probe. (AP Photo/Marcelo Luna, File)

Peru says ex-president has sought asylum in Uruguay

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

Peru’s new president pledges to lift up nation’s poor

By Frank Bajak - Associated Press