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...question was how much the junta itself had helped to accent the crisis. In their steadfast enmity toward the leftist but anti-Communist APRA party of Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the military men had shown a peculiar tolerance for the Communists, who were competing for the same peasant and laborer following. Several Red leaders were released from jail, known Communists were appointed to labor councils. Emboldened by this freedom, the Reds had gone about their violent errands with such a will that the junta could no longer ignore them...
Toiling for Transition. In Peru the military target was not Prado, a conservative banker and aristocrat at the end of his term. The rebellion was against the government that would succeed him. For months the military had vowed that they would not permit the coming to power of Haya de la Torre, chief of the leftist-turned-moderate APRA party, which has been engaged in a bitter, sometimes bloody dispute with the army for more than 35 years. When Haya led the balloting by some 14,000 votes in the June 10 elections but fell short of winning the constitutionally...
Perhaps realizing that his own past ill suited him to unite Peru, Haya offered to negotiate for a coalition government with the man who finished second, Fernando Belaúnde. Instead, Belaúnde cried that Haya had been elected by fraud-an accusation investigated and rejected by Prado's respected Electoral Tribunal. So Haya agreed to give his support to the third candidate, Manuel Odria, an ex-general who had ruled Peru as a dictator from...
...this belated moment-when the electoral results were officially certified, and the politicians had achieved a compromise in which the feared Haya would have only a minority voice in the government-that the military moved. In a last-minute appeal, Roman Catholic Primate Cardinal Juan Landázuri Ricketts pleaded with General Perez Godoy: "In the name of our Holy Mother, the Church, I beg of you not to break the legal order." Answered Pérez Godoy: "It is too late. The prestige of the army is at stake." Twenty minutes later the tanks were at the palace...
Kneeling before a crucifix in the palace, the four-man junta swore itself into office. The soldiers then suspended all constitutional guarantees, dissolved Congress, arrested Electoral Tribunal officials "for trial," and promised "clean and pure elections" on June 9, 1963. Haya and other leaders of his party fled underground. The APRA-controlled Workers Confederation declared a general strike for this week. Crowds that gathered before the palace to shout "Viva la libertad!" and "Down with the junta!" were beaten with truncheons by police or routed with tear...