Word: odria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ibanez, however, was not on hand to greet them; on his way home the Chilean President had 1) run across Ecuador's Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra at the Guayaquil airport and dawdled over a glass of champagne, and 2) landed at Lima for a chat with ailing Manuel Odria, Peru's outgoing President...
This new and sudden cordiality paid Odria one quick dividend: APRA, with plenty of reason for joining any revolt against the dictator, gave no backing at all to the abortive February uprising of army officers at Iquitos (TIME, Feb. 27). Odria's negotiations with APRA grew serious. He offered the party eventual legality and the immediate right to run candidates for Congress if APRA would support his chosen successor...
APRA agreed. Odria chose Lavalle, and most other candidates dropped out. Only Prado and Belaunde stayed on as formal opposition candidates. By mid-May, when a mostly Aprista throng of 35,000 cheered Lavalle in Lima, Odria seemed on the verge, after all, of electing...
Deal that Failed. Only a detail remained : Odria had to get Cabinet approval for a decree permitting APRA to run candidates for Congress. He failed. The military officers in the Cabinet, whose recent prosperity might invite the scrutiny of a pro-APRA Congress, refused to sign. With that, the deal was off and the election was thrown wide open...
...campaign drew to an end last week, the fact was that Strongman Odria's election had turned out to be so wide open that not even he could pick the winner...