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...Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, it was an hour of decision. Time & again APRA's husky leader had been outmaneuvered in the bitter struggle for power between Right and Left. This time APRA's enemies seemed ready for a finish fight. Even democratically minded President Jose Luis Bustamante, who was elected with Aprista votes, had joined the opposition (TIME, May 17). He was governing without a Congress...
...last week in a Manhattan hotel suite, Haya made his decision. Said he, after 73 days in the U.S.: "I must return and lead my people. This is the most fateful and dangerous hour of my life." Two days later, Haya landed in Lima and set off one of the biggest Aprista demonstrations in the party's history...
...Army's Role? Few people doubted that Haya de la Torre could say whether there would be war or an uneasy peace in Peru. Did he still hope to make peace with Bustamante? A deal between them would bring back elections, give Peru a Congress, return power to APRA municipal functionaires kicked out by the government. Or had Haya lost his faith in the "democratic processes" through which he has tried to take power over the past 20 years...
...answer might lie with the Peruvian army. The government claims that the army is loyal; Haya claims that most of the lower ranks, and even a few generals, would side with APRA in a showdown...
...screamed their mountain radio. Their leader, Planter Figueres, predicted the opening of new guerrilla fronts. Left to themselves, the rebels might win. But with Nicaragua behind the faltering government forces, and the Guatemalans doing their bit for the opposition, it looked as though Costa Rica, which Peru's Haya de la Torre had called "the Czechoslovakia of the Western Hemisphere," might instead become an international battleground on the pattern of civil-war Spain...