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Schlesinger found, as others have before him, that many of Latin America's leaders in private are ready to express their growing disillusionment with Castro. Last week even Peruvian Leftist Victor Raul Haya de la Torre denounced the Castro government in public (see below). Half a dozen Latin American nations-Haiti, the Dominican Republic. Nicaragua, Guatemala, Peru and Paraguay-have already broken off diplomatic relations with Castro...
More than 35 years ago, a stocky Peruvian student named Victor Raul Haya de la Torre started one of Latin America's first mass-based political movements. He called it the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), and from the moment of its founding Haya was so harassed by Peru's wealthy oligarchy and archconservative military that he spent at least 30 of the 36 years in prison, in asylum or out of the country. Last week -protected by APRA's current alliance with the enlightened conservatism of Peru's President Manuel Prado-Haya de la Torre...
After the fireworks, the chants and the jubilant procession past APRA's head quarters, Haya explained to 80,000 party faithful how he saw APRA in the world of 1961. The party, he said, still stands for its historic goals-land reform, free education, cooperatives and the gradual nationalization of natural resources. Haya had no apologies to make for his alliance with President Prado. Such cooperation between left and right is necessary, he said, "to defend the new democracy against its many enemies...
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...