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...ctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Latin America's most celebrated political refugee, began his fifth year of residential sanctuary in the Colombian embassy in Lima, Peru. Leader of the outlawed Peruvian leftist APRA party at the time of the 1948 military coup, Haya fled to the embassy pleading the time-honored right of asylum...
...government finally achieved its avowed aim of eliminating the top leadership of the outlawed Aprista party. The non-Stalinist group, once the most powerful in the country, draws its doctrine from Marx and its support from Peru's impoverished Indian agrarians. When APRA's founder Victor Raul Haya de la Torre sought refuge in the Colombian embassy a year ago last January, he left a triumvirate to direct the party. Last fortnight two of the three, Senator Cirilo Cornejo and Deputy Luis Felipe de las Casas, were condemned to prison terms by a military court. Next night...
...Haya had lingered much longer in Peru he might have faced a common murder charge. Two years ago Rightist Publisher Francisco Graña had been shot down as he left his Lima office. Rightists laid the murder to the Apristas, then riding high in cabinet and Congress. Aprista denials were none too convincing; soon the party was on the run before the rightist barrage. Last October APRA was outlawed. Three weeks later, General Manuel Odria seized the government, ordered the immediate trial of seven Apristas who had been indicted for Grana's murder. When the trial opened last...
...Haya had made his difficult decision just before New Year's. Summoning the few remaining members of his high command, he told them that he had dissolved the party's ruling committees, appointed a triumvirate to rule in his absence...
...departure of Haya did not necessarily mean the end of Aprismo. It was still a large and tightly knit movement. Peru, a politically backward country, had no mass party to take its place. But Haya's future was something else. His own disciples had begun to criticize him. Nobody could forget that in the party's first long stretch underground (1936-45), the redoubtable chieftain had led his anti-Communist leftists from inside Peru without once being caught. But now, many Peruvians felt that it would be miraculous if he ever came back. Said an Aprista...