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Alan Garcia Perez, President of Peru, stands at the United Nations podium speaking, with the UN emblem visible on the front and a green marble background behind him.
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Alan Garcia Perez, President of Peru, stands at the United Nations podium speaking, with the UN emblem visible on the front and a green marble background behind him.
Alan García Alan García, 2010.

Alan García

president of Peru
Also known as: Alan García Pérez
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Alan García (born May 23, 1949, Lima, Peru—died April 17, 2019, Lima) was a Peruvian politician who twice served as president of Peru (1985–90; 2006–11). García studied at Pontifical Catholic University in Lima and earned a law degree (1971) from the Main National University of San Marcos of Lima. After several years of additional study in Madrid and Paris, he returned to Peru, where in 1976 he joined the centre-left American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA)....

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