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Thus, at 3:20 in the morning, Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, 73, constitutional President of Peru, third largest nation in South America, was thrown out of office, just ten days short of completing his six-year term. The country's new rulers are a brassbound junta of "four Presidents," headed by a cavalry general, Manuel Perez Godoy, 59, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and including General Nicolas Lindley López, 53, commander of Peru's army; Vice Admiral Juan Francisco Torres Matos, 56, boss of the navy; and General Pedro Vargas Prada, 49, chief...
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...
...army did not rally to his side. Outgoing President Manuel Prado had taken precautions against a coup, spending most of one night at the palace gathering assurances of loyalty from army officers. Lima's Juan Cardinal Landazuri Ricketts also issued an appeal to all leaders to respect "justice, truth and the legal order of the nation." The anti-Haya army generals still blustered, but when the respected National Elections Court rejected the charges of fraud against Hava's supporters, the generals assured the Elections Court: "We acknowledge the power that the constitution and the elections statute confer upon...
...APRA-hating general named Manuel Odria seized power and drove APRA underground once more. Haya fled to the Colombian embassy in Lima, where he stayed for five years. Not until 1956 did Odria hold another election. Once again APRA was the power behind the scenes, helped elect Manuel Prado, a conservative banker, to the presidency in return for winning legality as a party. It also made an enemy of Fernando Belaúnde, a well-born architect who at 43 went into politics in a big way and cultivated wide support from both left and right with a spellbinding appeal...
...life expectancy of 45 years, an average peasant wage of $53 annually. Yet the conservatives still call APRA Communist, the Communists call it reactionary, and politicians of all shades spend more time attacking it than speaking for themselves. Nor does APRA hear many kind words from outgoing President Prado and his influential ex-Prime Minister, Pedro Beltran, both of whom enjoyed APRA's support in government. Both have declined to give APRA an endorsement...