Alan García became an accomplished statesman. But there was always a shadow behind him
Alan García was big: his bulky frame, his oratory, his political talents, his ambition, his sense of self-importance, his mistakes and moral flaws. In the end he took the biggest, and saddest, decision: to end his life on April 17th after police arrived at his house in Lima to jail him for alleged corruption. A proud man, subject to depression, that was a humiliation he was not prepared to suffer. He was not the first Latin American leader to take that way out.
There was always a shadow behind the accomplished statesman. Critics claimed he had taken rake-offs on a contract to buy fighter jets and on a deal with Bettino Craxi, a corrupt Italian Socialist, to build an urban railway. Nothing was ever proved. In exile in the 1990s Mr García acquired a flat in an elegant part of Paris. He used his influence over congress, courts and the media to deflect awkward questions.
He is the latest in a line of Latin American politicians who took their own lives. Others include two Chilean presidents, José Manuel Balmaceda and Salvador Allende; a Bolivian, Germán Busch; and Brazil’s Getúlio Vargas. Though the circumstances and their stature varied, all faced political failure.
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