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Alan García
Alan García was a Peruvian politician of APRA who was president of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. His first government, populist and unorthodox, ended in hyperinflation, economic collapse and the growth of the Shining Path insurgency. His second presidency followed free-market policies amid strong growth. He killed himself in 2019 as police arrived to arrest him in the Odebrecht corruption investigation.
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