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...hawk-nosed little man raised his arms, as if in benediction, and 1,000 Peruvian Indians at the airport in the remote jungle town of Iquitos responded with a thunderclap cheer: "Haya presidente! APRA never dies!" The visitor beamed, waved, headed a parade over a red dirt road into town, and there delivered a fiery, fist-shaking speech in a plaza ringed by royal palms and mango trees. "Five centuries ago millions of Incas lived well in Peru," he cried. "There is no reason we cannot do better today!" "APRA, APRA!" screamed the crowd...
...Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, founder of Peru's peasant-and-worker APRA Party-and he was on the last lap of a long journey. After three decades of jail, exile and bitter fighting, Haya was at last a candidate, running openly and legally, for President of Peru. As the June 10 election date drew near, he was the favorite, but a narrow one and a man whose many enemies were closing in around him. Pressing hard are Fernando Belaúnde, 49, who narrowly lost the 1956 election, and a voice from the more distant...
Massacre in Chan Chan. Haya's enemies have good reason to fear him and his party. His allies are still nervously unsure in their trust. Son of a struggling newspaper publisher, Haya founded APRA (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance) 38 years ago while exiled in Mexico for inciting student riots against Peru's ruling oligarchy. His object was to unite all Latin America into a single federation under a government built around elements of both Marxism and Fascism. Imperialists and exploiters would be thrown out; the peasants would rule through the divine leadership of APRA. The party...
...party was outlawed, and APRA responded by massacring 26 soldiers in Haya's home town of Trujillo. Coldly and efficiently, the army then executed thousands of Apristas before the ruins of the nearby Inca city of Chan Chan. Driven underground, Haya continued to build his party cells and by 1945 was too powerful either to destroy or ignore. In elections that year, APRA made a deal to help elect a non-Aprista as President, and in return was given three Cabinet posts. Within three years, an APRA-hating general named Manuel Odria seized power and drove APRA underground once...
...style revolution. Prado himself is a member of the oligarchy (his father was President for two terms in the 19th century), that controls Peru through birth or wealth. He was re-elected President in 1956 only because he promised to restore legality to the outlawed, mass-based political party APRA. Once in office, Prado tried to develop the nation by switching on the currency presses. The sol sank, the economy wobbled, and Prado came under the withering fire of such critics as Pedro Beltrán, publisher of Lima's influential La Prensa...