When reporters arrived at the home of former Peruvian President Alan Garcia on Wednesday, they thought they were witnessing a van taking him to jail on corruption charges. But that vehicle was actually headed to the hospital. Garcia killed himself before he could be taken into custody. Those facts then entered the vortex that is Peru’s media landscape. As Jesse Hardman reports, Peru has a complicated news culture that trafficked in fake news long before the term was popularized by President Donald Trump.
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