Word: apra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cher. There will be no collapse." Quite possibly he was right. In a strange alliance, this dandified scion of the rich class that Peru calls "the oligarchs" has teamed up with Ramiro Prialé, 55, the revolutionary who bosses Latin America's greatest mass political movement, the Apra, to put Peruvian democracy on a working, paying basis...
Manuel Prado, banker and boulevardier, swept back in 1956 from eight years of exile in Paris to begin the process of uniting his divided country. He accepted Apra support for the presidential election, in return legalized the party when he won. For this, the oligarchs labeled him a traitor to his class. Actually, the Prado-Apra alliance may avert the class struggle between the oligarchs and the Indian masses that historians (mindful of the Mexican revolution) predict. Apra turned right and met Prado going left...
...Apra too has caught the idea. Once it called for revolution, but Boss Prialé now says: "That's not the way. A power plant, that's the real revolution. It means factories and payrolls. It gives the people light. It changes their lives. Everybody can work together on that-Apra, government, business, American capital...
...grievances as well as Communist leadership went into South America's anti-Nixon demonstrations, and Peru (pop. 9,900,000) has its share of troubles. Historically, Peru is a firm U.S. ally. Conservative President Manuel Prado is pro-U-S.-and so is the big, left-of-center APRA Party, which in a marriage of convenience put Prado into office two years...
Prado's No. 1 political problem is likely to be how to get along with APRA, which helped him win because he promised to legalize outlawed parties. It was to crush APRA that Odria took over in 1948, but APRA leaders now claim that the party has outgrown its old socialistic, demagog ic, intolerant ways. If the party should again make itself too obnoxious to the army, a swing back to military rule would be all too probable...