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Since 1945 La Prensa had stood on the editorial opinion that fanatics who had spent 16 years in illegal activity would never be fit to govern Peru. When Apra Leader Victor Raul Haya de la Torre put three Apristas in key Cabinet posts, La Prensa helped stall their projects for raising the social and economic level of Peru's 4.000.000 Indians. La Prensa also fought the Apra plan to get Standard Oil cash for these plans in return for oil concessions...
...most Latin American countries Haya was little more than a name-but he was a name. As a student revolutionary he had passed through most of Central America as un unwelcome exile, suspected of Communism and feared for his wild talk of uniting South America's Indians. The U.S. had once picked him off a ship at Panama, sent him to Europe to get him out of the way. For 16 years he had been the leader of the underground opposition in Peru. Twice, his followers claimed, he had been elected president of Peru, if the ballots had been...
...Haya's Apra (People's Party) was out in the open and had become the majority party in Peru. Haya himself, now an outspoken foe of Communism, was all steamed up about paying back defaulted Peruvian bonds to the U.S. (so that he could get new funds for his industrial, irrigation and Indian-aid projects). With the U.S. State Department he stood in high favor. And in capitals like Santiago and Caracas, government was now in the hands of leftists, some of whom (Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt, for one) had known Haya in exile...
Last week's visit to Panama was one stop on a tour. Haya had already been in Colombia and Venezuela. In Panama, where the university gave him an honorary law degree, Lieut. General Willis D. Crittenberger invited him to lunch at Canal Zone headquarters. Haya would go to Costa Rica and Guatemala. To each country he had an official invitation...
What Apra Wants. In some ways he was still the old Haya. Throughout his tour he still stuck up for continental unity. "What I am fighting about," he cried, "is that in this hemisphere there is a United States of the north and disunited states of the south. Small and big can never live together. We must make ourselves big by uniting. We Apristas are against customs barriers and want political and economic cooperation among all Latin American countries...