Word: apra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lima: "All's well that ends well." In Mexico he told the friends who flocked around that he had passed the silent years by writing three books and reading thousands of them. Once the organizer of Latin America's only Indian mass movement, the left-wing APRA Party, Haya now bubbled with plans to write, speak and travel. Said he: "I consider myself lucky to be alive . . . Now I must start all over again." Today, Haya's party is shattered and outlawed. Peru's President Manuel Odria, who dealt the Apristas their knockout blow, has stabilized...
...ctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Latin America's most celebrated political refugee, began his fifth year of residential sanctuary in the Colombian embassy in Lima, Peru. Leader of the outlawed Peruvian leftist APRA party at the time of the 1948 military coup, Haya fled to the embassy pleading the time-honored right of asylum...
...Lima the junta sent secret police scurrying into the capital's luxurious Club Nacional, arrested dozens of "plotters." Blamed for the uprising were Montagne's small, conservative Civic Action party, the outlawed, impotent APRA party, and the surprised, feeble Peruvian Communists. Triumphant Odría told his countrymen: "The people of Peru have shown their unanimous support in my favor. The Arequipa rebellion was merely the exploitation of children and unwise ones who were tossed to sacrifice by wicked people." His onetime electoral rival Montagne was under arrest, awaiting deportation. In next month's election...
...General Manuel Odria's government finally achieved its avowed aim of eliminating the top leadership of the outlawed Aprista party. The non-Stalinist group, once the most powerful in the country, draws its doctrine from Marx and its support from Peru's impoverished Indian agrarians. When APRA's founder Victor Raul Haya de la Torre sought refuge in the Colombian embassy a year ago last January, he left a triumvirate to direct the party. Last fortnight two of the three, Senator Cirilo Cornejo and Deputy Luis Felipe de las Casas, were condemned to prison terms...