Word: haya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future of Peru. One was soft-spoken José Luis Bustamente Rivero, the moderate-minded poet and law professor who was elected President last June when leftist parties swept Peru's first really free election. The other, who probably did most of the talking, was leonine Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, boss of Apra (People's Party...
...hold power without office. But when Apra pushed a law through Congress by flexing its muscles in Lima's streets (TIME, Dec. 17), and no Cabinet minister dared publicly to protest, President Bustamente became convinced that the only responsible government would be one with Apra in it. Haya saw that it was impossible to guide policy entirely from the streets. The result: compromise...
Last week three Apristas joined the Cabinet. As partial guarantee that some of Haya's big reconstruction plans would be carried out, Apristas were placed in the Finance, Public Works and Agriculture Ministries. Then, to sanctify the union, Bustamente and Haya came out on the steps of the presidential palace and embraced each other till the cameramen said quit...
Avocado Politics. Apra was not part of the government it fought so ferociously to uphold. With more seats in Congress than any other party, it was content to hold power without office. Its famed Jefe (Chief) and hero, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre-now fattish and 50 and far from the wild-eyed incendiary that the U.S. took off a ship in Panama in the '20s and deported to Europe-sat in his offices at La Tribuna, nibbled an occasional avocado and formulated the party's policy...
...voted for Poet-President Jose Luis Bustamante and compromised its way to power, Peru's new-dealing Government had revamped its school system and hiked teacher pay by almost 80%, voted "victory bonuses" (employer-paid) to all workers. It had also embarked on the enterprise dearest to Haya's pro-Indian heart, irrigation that would restore to Indians the Andean waters their Inca ancestors had led through now-ruined aqueducts and tunnels. "The reactionaries irrigated the country in blood," Haya told them. "We will irrigate it with water...