Word: haya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast, talked slow, beat his chest with his fists, waved his arms in circles, crouched, whirled, broke off his most telling sentences to invite applause. In the hall of Panama City's Inter-American University, Panamanian students roared approval. Yes, they liked the man from Peru, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre...
...most Latin American countries Haya was little more than a name-but he was a name. As a student revolutionary he had passed through most of Central America as un unwelcome exile, suspected of Communism and feared for his wild talk of uniting South America's Indians. The U.S. had once picked him off a ship at Panama, sent him to Europe to get him out of the way. For 16 years he had been the leader of the underground opposition in Peru. Twice, his followers claimed, he had been elected president of Peru, if the ballots had been...
...Haya's Apra (People's Party) was out in the open and had become the majority party in Peru. Haya himself, now an outspoken foe of Communism, was all steamed up about paying back defaulted Peruvian bonds to the U.S. (so that he could get new funds for his industrial, irrigation and Indian-aid projects). With the U.S. State Department he stood in high favor. And in capitals like Santiago and Caracas, government was now in the hands of leftists, some of whom (Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt, for one) had known Haya in exile...
Last week's visit to Panama was one stop on a tour. Haya had already been in Colombia and Venezuela. In Panama, where the university gave him an honorary law degree, Lieut. General Willis D. Crittenberger invited him to lunch at Canal Zone headquarters. Haya would go to Costa Rica and Guatemala. To each country he had an official invitation...
Almost from the start, sales paid the workshop's way. Soon Peruvian Government officials began to take an interest. Men like Haya de la Torre, chief of the dominant APRA party, dropped in for a look and stayed to listen. Pipe-puffing Truman Bailey's program for Peru's back-country Indians,,they agreed, made sense. Now big U.S. companies (Westinghouse for one) are bidding for exclusive foreign sales rights. Bailey, who will stay with the, project, is not rushing into the export field. But both he and the Peruvian Government, which needs dollar credits, are looking...