Yehude Simon
| Yehude Simon | |
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| Member of Congress | |
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Assumed office 26 July 2011 |
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| Constituency | Lambayeque |
| Second Vice President of Congress | |
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In office 26 July 2011 – 26 July 2012 |
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| President | Daniel Abugattás |
| Succeeded by | Juan Carlos Eguren |
| Prime Minister of Peru | |
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In office 14 October 2008 – 11 July 2009 |
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| President | Alan García |
| Preceded by | Jorge del Castillo |
| Succeeded by | Javier Velásquez |
| 1st Governor of Lambayeque | |
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In office 1 January 2003 – 9 March 2009 |
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| Lieutenant | Nery Saldarriaga |
| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Succeeded by | Nery Saldarriaga (Interim) |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 26 July 1985 – 26 July 1990 |
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| Personal details | |
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18 July 1947 Lima, Peru |
| Political party | Humanist Movement Party |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Valcárcel |
| Alma mater | Pedro Ruiz Gallo State University |
Yehude Simon Munaro (born 18 July 1947) is a Peruvian politician (PHP) and former Prime Minister of Peru.
Born in Lima to a family of Arab and Italian descent, Simon's family moved to the city of Chiclayo to establish a shoe retail business. After completing his early education at the Colegio Manuel Pardo, he joined the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, in the city of Lambayeque, where he later was a lecturer. He married Nancy Valcárcel, a Chiclayo painter with whom he had four children: Jessica, Yehuda, and Yusef Yail and four grandchildren: David, Micaela, Joaquín and Isabella.
Yehuda Simon began his political activity in 1983, when he applied for the post of Mayor of prosperous Chiclayo by the party United Left, and was placed second. In 1985 he applied to the Chamber of Deputies by United Left, was elected MP for Lambayeque (1985-1990), integrating the Committees on Justice and Human Rights Congress.
In 1991, he founded the Free Patriotic Movement, who was accused of being the legal wing of the MRTA (Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) rebel movement, famous for the 1996 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima. On 5 April 1992, Simon was in Europe, participating in conferences. Upon learning of the breakdown of the constitutional President Alberto Fujimori he returned to Peru and decided to participate in the protest against the closure of the Congress of Peru.
On 11 June 1992 he was arrested along with other leaders of Patria Libre, and accused of being a subversive. Later that year he was sentenced by the judiciary to 20 years of imprisonment for the crime of "glorification of terrorism." During his eight and a half years in prison, human rights organizations, Amnesty International, some media and some opposition Peruvian politicians demanded that the Fujimori regime pardon him.
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