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Unlike the Callao rising, which Bustamante had blamed on the leftist APRA party, the Arequipa revolt was led by a professional soldier and outspoken rightist, 51-year-old General Manuel Odria. He started it off by denouncing the government for not taking sterner measures against APRA (it had been outlawed, many of its leaders jailed). Then he called on the military to follow...
Into Exile. Within 24 hours, the President had plenty to worry about. The commanders of the strong Lima garrison bluntly refused to oppose Odria, advised Bustamante to resign. Scholarly, law-minded Jose Bustamante parried by suggesting that the whole matter be left to the Supreme Court for decision. The soldiers brushed the idea aside. Bustamante knew then that he was finished, but he sat on stubbornly in his grandiose palace on the Plaza de Armas until four officers came to escort him to the Limatambo airfield and Argentine exile...
...coup had been bloodless: all important garrisons had pledged in advance to support it. General Odria flew up to the capital in an army plane, was met by 2,000 cheering Limeños and a military band. That night, in a kind of radio fireside chat, he talked vaguely of better times for labor, agriculture and the army, promised that elections would be held "after a brief transitional government." But he gave no assurance that Peru would continue the experiment in democratic government begun under Bustamante. (Said Bustamante in his farewell: "Democracy is like the sun; its eclipses...
...career officer, Odria had risen to colonel when President Bustamante made him brigadier and chief of staff in 1946. The following year, when Bustamante tried governing with an all-military cabinet, Odria held his first public office as Minister of Government (Interior). He quit the cabinet when Bustamante last summer brusquely rejected his demand for immediate outlawing of the Apristas...
...announced that he meant to steer Peru on a straight-down-the-middle course. In the quick showdown forced by Llosa, the army stood behind the President. Within a few hours of the first call to revolt, all garrison commanders pledged loyalty to Bustamante. Early rumors that General Manuel Odria and other former cabinet members might join the uprising were discredited. Another favorable sign: before the Andean rebels were squelched, APRA's paper La Tribune, announced that APRA too was "wholly on the side of the government...