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Alan Garcia falls on his sword : Should former Peruvian president have killed himself?


Peru's former president, Alan Garcia, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head as police were about to arrest him on Wednesday morning

The suicide of former Peruvian president Alan Garcia caught many by surprise. The ex-leader was about to be seized on allegations he received bribes from Odebrecht when he took his own life. Garcia had been linked with one of the greatest corporate corruption scandals in the world.

Founded in the northeast of Brazil in the 1940s, construction behemoth Odebrecht was one of Brazil's most competitive construction companies as it won contracts not just in Latin America but also in the Middle East and Africa.




However, the firm's image was shattered after the arrest of its CEO Marcelo Odebrecht in 2015. Initially he denied all accusations of corrupt links with politicians, but two years later a plea bargain deal saw him come forward with allegations that are still rocking Latin American politics to this day.

Countries like Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Peru and many other places were embroiled in the corruption scandal. It was claimed that Odebrecht offered bribes to politicians in power in exchange for exclusive, multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects.


Garcia had served as president from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. When police arrived to execute an arrest warrant at his home at 6:30 a.m., the former president said he wanted to call his attorney. He then went to his bedroom.

Moments later, a gunshot was heard. Officers forced entry into the bedroom, where they found Garcia with a wound to the head. The 69-year-old leader was rushed by police to a hospital in the capital Lima. There, he was resuscitated three times, but doctors were ultimately unable to save him.


Garcia's case was a confirmation that most political leaders around the world are often engaged in shady deals. Many will now conclude that, by killing himself, the former President had admitted guilt. He appeared terrified of facing justice.

Corruption is rife in most countries of the world. From the marble halls of Western capitals to the presidential palaces of the Third World.


The difference between the First World and the Third World is that in the advanced world, corruption is frowned upon and kept to the barest minimum. In the underdeveloped world, often deceptively described as the developing world, corruption is the order of the day.

In the Third World, it is not unusual for entire budgetary allocations for nations and states to be stolen by leaders and ministers with nothing left for education, health, roads and other things.


It is all about how the resources of a nation are managed. Therefore, until and unless politicians in South America, Africa and Asia start to genuinely serve their peoples by using their nations' resources to alleviate the sufferings of their long-suffering populations, things will remain unchanged. People will continue to die on the seas, people will continue to starve, people will continue to die of treatable ailments and diseases, and people will continue to live at the mercy of drug cartels and gangs.



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