Word: haya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along the dry coastal plain, soldiers and police tracked down the men blamed for the brief, bloody uprising in Callao (TIME, Oct. 11). By week's end more than 1,000 Apristas had been jailed. Each day the searchers hoped to bring in Aprista No. 1, famed Haya de la Torre...
...suggestion that Haya and his lieutenants were too smart to have mixed in the inept Callao revolt, anti-Apristas had an answer. The army had been expected to join the revolt; instead had remained loyal to President Bustamante. Others accused Aprista leaders of cowardice. Said one: "I have always believed Haya to be just a tough guy with no guts...
Even Peru's rightists, who for a quarter century had hated Haya de la Torre with a bitterness peculiar to Peru, had seldom accused him of lacking courage. Over the years in which he fired Peru's depressed people with a hope for a better life, he had been in & out of prison, had known exile, lived underground. His party had often been guilty of violence...
...Apristas emerged as the country's most powerful political party. Rightists refused to work with them or to trust them, and the Apristas, by turning again to violence, gave reason for this distrust. It was inevitable that the Callao revolt should be pinned on them and on Haya de la Torre, APRA's founding father...
Back in 1924, when Haya went into his first exile, he told his followers: "Don't despair. I shall come back." This time the Bustamante government and Haya's rightist enemies were determined that he should...