Word: apra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term, 1939-45.* On the same day the new Congress speedily and unanimously dismantled the dictatorship's legal structure. In a series of new-broom bills, the lawmakers declared an amnesty for political prison ers, swept away oppressive security laws, restored legality to the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA...
Manuel Prado, the scholarly, conservative patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family, last week won the presidency of Peru with the help of the country's big, left-wing APRA party. In a five-day unofficial vote count, former President (1939-45) Prado inched steadily ahead of Architect Fernando Belaunde Terry, a young amateur politician whose campaign had suddenly caught fire two weeks before election day; both of them left the government's official candidate, Hernando de Lavalle, far behind. Totals at week's end:* Prado 445,000, Belaunde 404,000, Lavalle...
...political master stroke as well. Two days before the election, Prado announced that "one of the first acts of my government will be to declare a general political amnesty and put an end to the proscription of political parties." In Peru the only significant proscribed party is APRA (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance), which was thrown out of power and outlawed in 1948 by the present President, Military Strongman Manuel...
Fast Switch. Surviving underground, APRA still controlled at least one-third of the vote. Party Chief Ramiro Prialé two months ago tried to persuade the government to restore APRA's legal status in exchange for a pledge to support the government candidate. Odría liked the idea, but his military Cabinet refused to go along with the deal. For his part, Candidate Belaunde angered Prialé by appealing for the votes of rank-and-file Apristas over Prialé's head. When he heard Prado's timely promise of amnesty, Prialé sent...
...Outlawed APRA could not run its own men for Congress, but pro-APRA candidates under the labels of lesser parties apparently won a majority of seats. As he claimed victory, Prado announced that he would submit to this Congress a bill to legalize APRA. Once the bill passes, he told interviewers, he supposed the APRA's famed founder, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, could return from foreign exile...