Brazil Grants Political Asylum to Peru’s Former First Lady Nadine Heredia
Former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala (L) and Nadien Heredia (R). X/ @ConvocaPe
April 16, 2025 Hour: 1:14 pm
After being sentenced to 15 years in prison, she presented herself at the Brazilian Embassy in Lima.
On Wednesday, Nadine Heredia, the wife of former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala (2011–2016), arrived in Brasilia thanks to diplomatic asylum granted by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Heredia arrived on a Brazilian Air Force (FAB) plane, which was sent to Lima after Peruvian authorities granted the necessary safe-conduct for her departure from Peru.
On Tuesday, shortly after being sentenced to 15 years in prison, Heredia presented herself at the Brazilian Embassy in Lima, where she formally requested asylum, which was granted almost immediately.
She arrived in the Brazilian capital with one of her sons, Samir, who was also granted diplomatic asylum. It is still unknown whether they will settle in Brasilia or in another city in the country.
Humala and his wife were sentenced to prison for a corruption and money laundering scheme linked to electoral campaigns involving the Brazilian company Odebrecht.
The former president was arrested on Tuesday and will be held at the Barbadillo prison in Lima, where former presidents Alejandro Toledo and Pedro Castillo are also serving sentences—the former for scandals tied to Odebrecht and the latter for attempting to dissolve Congress in 2022.
Due to alleged corruption linked to Odebrecht—a scandal that rocked several Latin American countries—President Lula himself was once convicted and spent 580 days in prison, following a trial that was eventually annulled by Brazil’s Supreme Court due to multiple procedural irregularities.
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Source: EFE
