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Word: aprista (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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APRA agreed. Odria chose Lavalle, and most other candidates dropped out. Only Prado and Belaunde stayed on as formal opposition candidates. By mid-May, when a mostly Aprista throng of 35,000 cheered Lavalle in Lima, Odria seemed on the verge, after all, of electing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Wide-Open Election | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

Meeting outside Lima in their first national convention in twelve years, the 800 Aprista delegates present had good reason to be jubilant. In a radio address to the nation, conservative President Manuel Odria, long an implacable foe of APRA, had openly invited individual Apristas to take part in the political activity leading to next June's presidential elections. Moreover, he had indicated that he would permit the party to convene unmolested. On one week's notice delegates from the four corners of the country gathered. "This shows," said Leader Priale, "that under persecution our party has preserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Return of APRA | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Progress to Prosperity | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Police Trap? Two days after Negreiros' death the Aprista underground distributed mimeographed sheets giving their own version of the story.* Negreiros, they said, had been lured to his death by a traitor. According to the Apristas, as soon as the man had identified Negreiros, the police came from ambush with guns blazing, and cut him down with 28 bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trial & Execution | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...Aprista mimeographs have deeply annoyed the Junta; last month it decreed that all duplicating machines must be registered and licensed by the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trial & Execution | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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