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...past midnight, but the big man shouted: "Go tell the ambassador that the chief of the People's Party wants to see him." The ambassador appeared and admitted Peru's most famous political refugee to the asylum of his embassy. After three months in hiding, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, 53-year-old boss of the outlawed People's Party (APRA), wanted diplomatic protection and a chance to flee his country in safety...
...people and sicken their minds." The military junta he had set up would deal severely with "outrages . . . perpetrated in the name of democracy and freedom." That pointed to ruthless prosecution of the jailed APRA leaders and a redoubled hunt for those still at large, notably Aprista Chief Haya de la Torre...
Even Peru's rightists, who for a quarter century had hated Haya de la Torre with a bitterness peculiar to Peru, had seldom accused him of lacking courage. Over the years in which he fired Peru's depressed people with a hope for a better life, he had been in & out of prison, had known exile, lived underground. His party had often been guilty of violence...
...Apristas emerged as the country's most powerful political party. Rightists refused to work with them or to trust them, and the Apristas, by turning again to violence, gave reason for this distrust. It was inevitable that the Callao revolt should be pinned on them and on Haya de la Torre, APRA's founding father...
Back in 1924, when Haya went into his first exile, he told his followers: "Don't despair. I shall come back." This time the Bustamante government and Haya's rightist enemies were determined that he should...