Word: apra
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...stepped a little man in black and shot him through the heart. Pandemonium. Aides, police, guards lining the way, all opened fire at once. Two soldiers were killed; six soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the scrimmage. The assassin, one Abelardo de Mendoza, member of the suppressed Apra revolutionary party, fell riddled with bullets and pierced by a lancer's spear. Chosen Provisional President to succeed Sanchez Cerro was cautious General Oscar Benavides, who has already served a term as Provisional President of Peru. Foreign correspondents wagered that one of his first moves will be to accept...