Pedro Richter Prada

{{Short description|Peruvian politician (1921–2017)}} {{family name hatnote|Richter|Fernández Prada|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Pedro Richter-Prada | image = Pedro Richter Prada.jpg | office2 = [[Prime Minister of Peru]] | predecessor2 = [[Óscar Molina Pallochia]] | president2 = [[Francisco Morales Bermúdez]] | successor2 = [[Manuel Ulloa Elías]] | birth_name = Pedro Ángel Richter Fernández-Prada | birth_date = 4 January 1921 | birth_place = [[Ayacucho]], [[Peru]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|7|14|1921|1|4|df=y}} | death_place = [[Lima]], [[Peru]] | profession = [[Military]] | term_start2 = 31 January 1979 | term_end2 = 28 July 1980 | office3 = [[Ministry of the Interior (Peru)|Minister of the Interior]] | president3 = [[Juan Velasco Alvarado]] | term_start3 = 18 May 1971 | term_end3 = 30 August 1975 | predecessor3 = [[Armando Artola Azcárate]] | successor3 = [[César Campos Quesada]] | office4 = [[Ministry of Defense (Peru)|Minister of Defense]] | president4 = [[Juan Velasco Alvarado]] | term_start4 = 31 January 1979 | term_end4 = 28 July 1980 | predecessor4 = [[Óscar Molina Pallochia]] | successor4 = [[Jorge Muñiz Luna]] }} '''Pedro Ángel Richter Fernández-Prada''' (4 January 1921<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gw.geneanet.org/fgovir?lang=en&iz=0&i=0|title = Family tree of Pedro Angel RICHTER FERNANDEZ-PRADA}}</ref> – 14 July 2017)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://caretas.pe/sociedad/79712-pedro_richter_prada |title=Pedro Richter Prada - Caretas |access-date=2017-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801102426/http://caretas.pe/sociedad/79712-pedro_richter_prada |archive-date=2017-08-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a [[Peruvian]] [[politician]] who was the [[prime minister]] of Peru from January 31, 1979, until July 28, 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rulers.org/rulp1.html#peru|title = Countries Pa-Pe}}</ref> On December 28, 2007, the Italian government issued an arrest warrant for Prada for the disappearance of 25 Italian citizens in the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.peruviantimes.com/28/peru-ex-president-included-in-italian-arrest-warrant/82/|title = Peru ex-President included in Italian arrest warrant| newspaper=News from Peru - Peruvian Times |date = 28 December 2007}}</ref> In February 2015, a trial started in Italy related to [[Operation Condor]], there were indictments against 32 people, including Richter Prada. He was charged with aggravated murder.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americatv.com.pe/noticias/actualidad/operacion-condor-se-inicia-italia-juicio-contra-francisco-morales-bermudez-n169916 |title=Operación Cóndor: se inicia en Italia juicio contra Francisco Morales Bermúdez|language=es |publisher=américa noticias |date=12 February 2015 |access-date=22 May 2016}}</ref> Richter Prada also served as Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the Army.<ref name="MarescaMaslen2000">{{cite book|author1=Louis Maresca|author2=Stuart Maslen|title=The Banning of Anti-Personnel Landmines: The Legal Contribution of the International Committee of the Red Cross 1955–1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R_CjjO8-4-wC&pg=PA422|date=16 November 2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-43197-2|page=422}}</ref> According to a private death notice, Richter Prada died on 14 July 2017 aged 96.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://redaccion.lamula.pe/2017/07/17/pedro-richter-prada-morales-bermudez-operacion-condor/victorliza/|title = Falleció exministro Pedro Richter Prada, implicado en Operación Cóndor [VIDEOS y FOTOS]}}</ref>

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