Word: apristas
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...tumultuous week at the school. The student body, mostly boys of poorer families, has long been politically conscious, took part in the turbulence from which APRA rose a quarter-century ago. Despite a recent law banishing politics from schools, it is still a bastion of Aprista influence...
Afterwards, Pedagogue Haya, whose left-wing political movement began as a workers' university a quarter of a century ago, got down to party business. Because gringo eyes are on Apra, he warned, Aprista pupils must work harder than ever. Classes must be expanded. Discipline, already tight, must be tighter. Aprista workers, said Haya, must learn that strikes are weapons of last resort and must not be used irresponsibly, for "that would be like a traffic cop pulling out a revolver and shooting every time someone crossed the street on a red light...
Hardly a man in Lima heard the news without thinking at once of another assassination. Eleven years earlier Antonio Miro Quesada, editor of the powerful, conservative Comercio, had been shot and killed in the Plaza San Martin. That time an Aprista had done...
Peru's most important figure-more important than President Dr. Manuel Prado-is Raúl Haya de la Torre, fugitive head of the outlawed Aprista Party. President Prado, says Gunther, would probably like to lift the ban against the Apristas, but if he did, they would sweep him out of office at the next election. So he doesn...
When the officers woke up it was long past noon, but nobody had yet been shot. Aprista Party members were deluging the Government with telegrams demanding clemency. Telegraphed the Aprista Party Leader...