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Avocado Politics. Apra was not part of the government it fought so ferociously to uphold. With more seats in Congress than any other party, it was content to hold power without office. Its famed Jefe (Chief) and hero, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre-now fattish and 50 and far from the wild-eyed incendiary that the U.S. took off a ship in Panama in the '20s and deported to Europe-sat in his offices at La Tribuna, nibbled an occasional avocado and formulated the party's policy...
...voted for Poet-President Jose Luis Bustamante and compromised its way to power, Peru's new-dealing Government had revamped its school system and hiked teacher pay by almost 80%, voted "victory bonuses" (employer-paid) to all workers. It had also embarked on the enterprise dearest to Haya's pro-Indian heart, irrigation that would restore to Indians the Andean waters their Inca ancestors had led through now-ruined aqueducts and tunnels. "The reactionaries irrigated the country in blood," Haya told them. "We will irrigate it with water...
...that Peru has Bustamante as its President, the stage is set for change. Because Bustamante had stayed clear of partisan politics, he was able to fuse Haya de la Torre's radical Apra party, socialists and a handful of Communists and near-fascists into the victorious National Democratic Front. Now his problem is to hold them together while pushing through his social-reform program. The first test might well come this week when Congress (dominated by the Apristas) meets to act on Bustamante's program...
Peru's most important figure-more important than President Dr. Manuel Prado-is Raúl Haya de la Torre, fugitive head of the outlawed Aprista Party. President Prado, says Gunther, would probably like to lift the ban against the Apristas, but if he did, they would sweep him out of office at the next election. So he doesn...
...their heaviest artillery, sent a bombing fleet over it. Thereupon the Leftists took to the air, staged one of the most exciting airplane battles in months. Sent down in flames by a Leftist machine gunner, General Franco's officers admitted, was the Rightists' ace flyer, Carlos de Haya. While Rightists claimed the capture or destruction of thousands of Leftist soldiers and began to hail the battle as the turning point of the war, a series of explosions suddenly shook the city's outskirts. Leftists, answering the Rightists' bombardment from above, were blowing up Rightists from below...