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...months ago we stood with our backs to the wall; now we hold the trump cards in the political game." With these proud words, Underground Leader Ramiro Prialé last week hailed the astonishing comeback of APRA, the left-wing party outlawed by Peru's government...
Haya, a brilliant theorist, gave Apra a philosophy dizzyingly compounded of anti-U.S. nationalism, Marxism, reverence for the Incas, Nazi symbolism and even Einstein's theory of relativity as applied by Haya to history. Fighting back bloodily against the suppressive tactics of a series of dictators, Apra earned mass support and the hatred of the rich rightists and the army. Finally, in 1945, retiring President Manuel Prado allowed a free election. José Luis Bustamante, an Apra-supported but non-Aprista President, was chosen, and Apra had working control of Congress...
...eleven years of hiding to become Peru's unofficial strongman. He first tightened socialistic controls on prices and currency exchange, a move every bit as alarming as the conservatives had feared. They boycotted Congress, paralyzing it. Then came violence: the assassination of the editor of La Prensa, the Apra-hating newspaper owned by conservative Cotton Exporter Pedro Beltrán. Apristas were blamed; President Bustamante called for a soldier to take charge of public order. His choice: gimlet-eyed Colonel Manuel Odria, then chief of staff...
...shipped off to prison on Frontón Island, near Callao, and forgotten. Imprudent editors who displease the regime are sometimes bludgeoned by prowlers in the night. Students at ancient San Marcos are restive; last week, as it often is, the university was closed down after a strike. Apra simmers explosively underground. The Indians still ive in their timeless withdrawal, despite some experiments aimed at improving their lot (TIME...
...kind of change he proposes, Odria says: "I shall go, but the regime will go on. Whoever succeeds me must be a man willing to carry through my program for the country's good." Such talk plainly points to continued suppression of Apra, and no other party has managed to survive the politically barren years in any strength. By the present signs, therefore, Odria will stage a purely formal election vith a single, designated candidate...