LIMA, April 17 (Reuters) ― Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in a hospital in Lima on Wednesday, hours after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest in connection with a bribery probe, authorities said on Wednesday. Garcia governed as a nationalist from 1985 to 1990 before remaking himself as a free-market proponent and winning another five-year term in 2006. Garcia would have been the third former president in Peru to have been jailed in the Odebrecht case. A fourth former president, Alejandro Toledo, is fighting extradition from California after a judge in Peru ordered him jailed for 18 months in connection with Odebrecht in 2017. All have denied wrongdoing in connection with Odebrecht.

Source: Huffington Post April 17, 2019 16:18 UTC