Word: haya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latin America's most celebrated political refugee went free last week. Looking plumper and paler after five years of jail-like sanctuary in Colombia's embassy in Lima, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 59, arrived safely in Mexico City. The famed leader of Peru's Indian masses, who had been accused of masterminding a bloody revolt in 1948, doffed his floppy hat and bowed to a cheering crowd that...
Colombian and Peruvian diplomats had worked out a face-saving compromise to end their long, bitter deadlock over Haya. As part of the deal, Peru's Minister of Justice took Haya into technical custody for one hour, then drove him to the airport-where a watchful motorcycle cop followed the departing plane right to the end of the runway...
Peru's Foreign Office announced last week that diplomatic negotiations with Colombia in Bogotá had produced a neighborly agreement for the ending of Latin America's most celebrated case of political asylum: that of Peruvian Leftist Leader Haya de la Torre, accused of heading an abortive revolution in 1948. A refugee in Colombia's Lima embassy since 1949, Haya will probably be allowed to go into exile in Uruguay...
...martial law has not been lifted, as the editors of Gómez' El Siglo found out last week. Angered by a tactless editorial which seemed to take Peru's side in the Haya controversy, Rojas Pinilla closed El Siglo for a day. Censorship was also strict, though seemingly impartial, at other papers. Rojas has promised to return a measure of press freedom, after working out a set of "newspapermen's commandments." This may be less onerous than Gómez' capricious prior censorship, because it will put the rules down in black & white...
...leader of Peru's workers and Indians. A hunted man after Odria's 1948 revolution, he took refuge in Colombia's Lima embassy 4½ years ago. Subsequently, the World Court ruled confusingly that "asylum was not justified," but that Colombia "is not obliged to deliver" Haya to Peru. To this day, Haya has not left the embassy, which is completely encircled by Odria's troops...