Word: apra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the Callao rising, which Bustamante had blamed on the leftist APRA party, the Arequipa revolt was led by a professional soldier and outspoken rightist, 51-year-old General Manuel Odria. He started it off by denouncing the government for not taking sterner measures against APRA (it had been outlawed, many of its leaders jailed). Then he called on the military to follow...
Long before the government had buried its dead, it had moved against the leftist (but anti-Marxist) Aprista party. First it outlawed APRA, which the government flatly said "prepared and directed the movement." The government's evidence of guilt: most of the Aprista prisoners were armed when arrested, APRA was strong among the naval men who mutinied, one Aprista leader had told a friend that "revolt was imminent...
...country's most powerful political party. Rightists refused to work with them or to trust them, and the Apristas, by turning again to violence, gave reason for this distrust. It was inevitable that the Callao revolt should be pinned on them and on Haya de la Torre, APRA's founding father...
Under the President's orders, government troops in Lima occupied APRA headquarters, seized the plant of its newspaper, La Tribuna, arrested several prominent Apristas (including the party's second in command, Senator Manuel Seoane). Burly Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, APRA's leader, had disappeared, perhaps into the political underground where he had already spent 16 years of his life. One did not need to be as politically shrewd as Haya to know that if Bustamante had been looking for a chance to outlaw APRA, this week's revolt presented a tailor-made opportunity...
...common to all police states, an old friend put me in touch with a member of the Paraguayan underground, an attractive girl of about 28. "Lola" (that is not her name) is a member of the Movimiento Revoludonario Febrerista, a militant, left-wing organization corresponding to Peru's APRA...