1. Yehude Simon Munaro was born on 18 July 1947 and is a Peruvian politician, who served as Governor of the Lambayeque Region between 2003 and 2008, Prime Minister between 2008 and 2009 and as a Congressman from Lambayeque between 2011 and 2016, elected under the Alliance for the Great Change.
Yehude Simon ran for the presidency in 2016, then shortly announced his withdrawal.
Yehude Simon married Nancy Valcarcel, a Chiclayo painter with whom he had four children: Jessica, Yehude, Yusef and Yail, he had ten grandchildren: David, Micaela, Joaquin, Nicole, Salvador, Belen, Rafaella, Santiago, Isabella and Julian.
Yehude Simon began his political career in 1983, when he ran for the post of Mayor of prosperous Chiclayo city under the United Left, and was placed second.
On 5 April 1992, Yehude Simon was in Europe, participating in conferences.
In November 2000, during the Transitional Government headed by President Valentin Paniagua Corazao, Yehude Simon was pardoned and released by the then Minister of Justice, Diego Garcia Sayan.
On 14 October 2008, Yehude Simon was sworn in as President of the Council of Ministers, a position akin to that of a Prime Minister, replacing Jorge del Castillo who resigned in aftermath of the Petroaudios scandal.
President Alan Garcia had appointed Yehude Simon, who is politically to the left of Garcia, in an effort to mollify the country's poor and nationalists who are considered "hard-line leftists" by the right-wing Peruvian parties.
In June 2009, Yehude Simon announced that he would resign as prime minister "in the coming weeks", following violence over the land rights of Amazon Indians.
Yehude Simon resigned on 10 July 2009 and was replaced on 11 July 2009 by Javier Velasquez Quesquen.
Yehude Simon went on to apologize to the indigenous people, acknowledging the government had not properly consulted with the Amazon Indians prior to passing ten controversial laws, designed to ease foreign companies in the exploration of the Amazon for oil, gas and lumber.
Yehude Simon pledged to work to persuade the Peruvian congress to repeal these controversial laws.
On 24 January 2020, Yehude Simon was preliminarily detained for 10 days for having accepted bribes from Odebrecht in the Olmos Project.
Yehude Simon was sentenced to house arrest for 36 months.