Alan García

**Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez** (; 23 May 1949 – 17 April 2019) was a Peruvian politician. He was the President of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and again from 2006 to 2011. He was the leader of the Peruvian Aprista Party.

His first term, the country went through a severe economic crisis, social unrest and violence. He ran unsuccessfully for the Presidency in 2001, losing in a run-off to Alejandro Toledo. He ran again in 2006 and was elected to a second term, even though his first term in the 1980s was thought to be the worst in the country's history.

During García's second term, Peru had increased environmental damage, according to critics, and increased social conflict, according to the national human rights ombudsman's office.

García ran for a third term as president in the 2016 Peruvian general election as the candidate of the criticized Popular Alliance coalition which included APRA’s old rival, the Christian People’s Party with Lourdes Flores as his first running mate. The election's first round polls gave García 5.83% of the popular vote, preventing him from participating in the runoff election. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was ultimately elected.

On the morning of 17 April 2019, García shot himself in the neck when police officials were planning to arrest him linked to a corruption scandal. He was hospitalized under critical condition and had emergency surgery where García had three cardiac arrests. He died hours later at a Lima hospital.  García became the second head of state of Peru to die of suicide after Gustavo Jiménez, who did so in 1933.

García is considered one of the most controversial yet talented politicians of Peru's contemporary history. He was known as an immensely charismatic orator.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Alan García Pérez
- **office**: 61st and 64th List of Presidents of Peru, President of Peru
- **image**: PERÚ Y JAPÓN CERRARON NEGOCIACIONES PARA UN TRATADO DE LIBRE COMERCIO (5178322661) (cropped).jpg
- **predecessor**: Alejandro Toledo
- **primeminister**: Jorge Del Castillo, Jorge del Castillo
Yehude Simon
Javier Velásquez
José Antonio Chang
Rosario Fernández
- **successor**: Ollanta Humala
- **vicepresident**: Luis Giampietri
Lourdes Mendoza
- **signature**: Firmaalangarcia.jpg
- **office2**: President of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, Peruvian Aprista Party
- **predecessor2**: Position reestablished
- **successor2**: TBD
- **party**: American Popular Revolutionary Alliance
- **predecessor1**: Fernando Belaúnde Terry
- **primeminister1**: Luis Alva Castro
Armando Villanueva
Luis Alberto Sánchez
Guillermo Larco Cox
- **successor1**: Alberto Fujimori
- **vicepresident1**: Luis Alberto Sánchez
Luis Alva Castro
- **birth name**: Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez
- **birth place**: Lima, Peru
- **death place**: Lima, Peru
- **otherparty**: Popular Alliance (Peru), Popular Alliance
- **spouse**: Carla Buscaglia
Pilar Nores de García, Pilar Nores
- **alma mater**: Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
National University of San Marcos
Complutense University of Madrid, Complutense University
Pantheon-Sorbonne University
- **term start**: 28 July 2006
- **term end**: 28 July 2011
- **term start1**: 28 July 1985
- **term end1**: 28 July 1990
- **term start2**: 7 June 2004
- **term end2**: 11 April 2016
- **term start3**: 15 July 1985
- **term end3**: 23 December 1988
- **predecessor3**: Armando Villanueva
- **successor3**: Position abolished
- **office4**: General Secretary of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, Peruvian Aprista Party
- **term start4**: 9 October 1982
- **term end4**: 15 July 1985
- **predecessor4**: Fernando León de Vivero
- **successor4**: Armando Villanueva
Luis Negreiros