Word: haya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toiling for Transition. In Peru the military target was not Prado, a conservative banker and aristocrat at the end of his term. The rebellion was against the government that would succeed him. For months the military had vowed that they would not permit the coming to power of Haya de la Torre, chief of the leftist-turned-moderate APRA party, which has been engaged in a bitter, sometimes bloody dispute with the army for more than 35 years. When Haya led the balloting by some 14,000 votes in the June 10 elections but fell short of winning the constitutionally...
Perhaps realizing that his own past ill suited him to unite Peru, Haya offered to negotiate for a coalition government with the man who finished second, Fernando Belaúnde. Instead, Belaúnde cried that Haya had been elected by fraud-an accusation investigated and rejected by Prado's respected Electoral Tribunal. So Haya agreed to give his support to the third candidate, Manuel Odria, an ex-general who had ruled Peru as a dictator from...
...this belated moment-when the electoral results were officially certified, and the politicians had achieved a compromise in which the feared Haya would have only a minority voice in the government-that the military moved. In a last-minute appeal, Roman Catholic Primate Cardinal Juan Landázuri Ricketts pleaded with General Perez Godoy: "In the name of our Holy Mother, the Church, I beg of you not to break the legal order." Answered Pérez Godoy: "It is too late. The prestige of the army is at stake." Twenty minutes later the tanks were at the palace...
...Prado had taken precautions against a coup, spending most of one night at the palace gathering assurances of loyalty from army officers. Lima's Juan Cardinal Landazuri Ricketts also issued an appeal to all leaders to respect "justice, truth and the legal order of the nation." The anti-Haya army generals still blustered, but when the respected National Elections Court rejected the charges of fraud against Hava's supporters, the generals assured the Elections Court: "We acknowledge the power that the constitution and the elections statute confer upon the high and autonomous institution over which you preside...
Obviously no one except Belaúnde had much stomach for a test of arms. Last week, backers of Haya got together with the camp of the third presidential candidate, ex-Dictator Manuel Odria, and reached an "agreement in principle" to form a national union government. Together they would have a majority in Congress when it convenes next week to settle the split election. Rumors buzzed that Haya might agree to step aside in favor of Odria as President, but that Haya's APRA Party would have the major say in the Cabinet. A coalition government headed...