Word: haya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hawk-nosed little man raised his arms, as if in benediction, and 1,000 Peruvian Indians at the airport in the remote jungle town of Iquitos responded with a thunderclap cheer: "Haya presidente! APRA never dies!" The visitor beamed, waved, headed a parade over a red dirt road into town, and there delivered a fiery, fist-shaking speech in a plaza ringed by royal palms and mango trees. "Five centuries ago millions of Incas lived well in Peru," he cried. "There is no reason we cannot do better today!" "APRA, APRA!" screamed the crowd...
...Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, founder of Peru's peasant-and-worker APRA Party-and he was on the last lap of a long journey. After three decades of jail, exile and bitter fighting, Haya was at last a candidate, running openly and legally, for President of Peru. As the June 10 election date drew near, he was the favorite, but a narrow one and a man whose many enemies were closing in around him. Pressing hard are Fernando Belaúnde, 49, who narrowly lost the 1956 election, and a voice from the more distant...
...Ecuador last week, army officers ordered President Carlos Julio Arosemena to break relations with Castro's Cuba, touching off a crisis in which Aro-semena's entire Cabinet resigned. In Peru, where a leader of Latin America's non-Communist left, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, is running strong for next June's presidential elections, the Peruvian army promised to block his presidency. "Haya," said a general, "will not set foot in the presidential palace." One Latin American who acted to curb the infection was Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt...
Among those enemies, Haya explicitly listed Communism. Said he: "There is one basic difference between capital exported to underdeveloped countries from the U.S. and from Russia. American capital is no danger to democracy. Russian capital brings with it Communism, which is the end of democracy." And he added an outspoken warning about Castro's Cuba: "Let us keep in mind the experience of a sister nation that, oppressed by tyranny, revolted and raised the flag of justice. But after victory, the people wound up exchanging one tyrant for another...
...these words, Haya identified himself with such leaders of Latin America's anti-Communist left as Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt. Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz Marin and Costa Rica's ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Just as opposed to dictatorship of the left as of the right, Haya's fellow leftists have reached power proclaiming the compatibility of representative democracy and basic social reform. Having returned to Lima, Haya hopes to win power himself in Peru's presidential elections next year...