Yehude Simon

Yehude Simon
	Yehude Simon
	;
Prime Minister of Peru
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 14 October 2008
President	Alan García
Preceded by	Jorge del Castillo
Born	18 July 1947 (age 61);
Political party	Peruvian Humanist Movement Party
Alma mater	Pedro Ruiz Gallo State University

Yehude Simon Munaro (born 18 July 1947) is a Peruvian politician of Jewish and Italian descent. In his youth Yehude Simon was imprisoned for actively supporting the terrorist MRTA (Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) famous for the 1995 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima. After being paroled Simon has served as governor of the prosperous Lambayeque Region. On 14 October 2008, Simon was sworn in as President of the Peruvian Minister Cabinet, a position akin to that of a Prime Minister.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] President Alan García had appointed Simon, who is politically to the left of García, in an effort to mollify the country's poor and nationalists who are considered "hard-line leftists" by the right-wing Peruvian parties.^[5]

In June 2009 Simon announced that he will resign as prime minister "in the coming weeks", following violence over the land rights of Amazon Indians.^[6]

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Preceded by Jorge del Castillo	Prime Minister of Peru 2008 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent

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Prime Minister of Peru
Yehude Simon

Incumbent
Assumed office 14 October 2008
President	Alan García
Preceded by	Jorge del Castillo

Born	18 July 1947 (1947-07-18) (age 61)
Political party	Peruvian Humanist Movement Party
Alma mater	Pedro Ruiz Gallo State University