Word: ra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, founder of Peru's peasant-and-worker APRA Party-and he was on the last lap of a long journey. After three decades of jail, exile and bitter fighting, Haya was at last a candidate, running openly and legally, for President of Peru. As the June 10 election date drew near, he was the favorite, but a narrow one and a man whose many enemies were closing in around him. Pressing hard are Fernando Belaúnde, 49, who narrowly lost the 1956 election, and a voice from the more distant...
...military's total assumption of power that even some generals were uneasy, and for a time it looked as if there might be a shooting match among them. War Secretary Enrique Rauch wanted to go slowly and seek a democratic means of moving against the Peronistas. But General Raúl Poggi, the tough-minded army commander in chief, who led the initial coup in March against Frondizi, insisted on a complete military takeover. Tempers flared, and Rauch phoned the Presidential Palace to say: "I'm going to throw him out with bullets." Poggi barricaded himself...
...borders. In Ecuador last week, army officers ordered President Carlos Julio Arosemena to break relations with Castro's Cuba, touching off a crisis in which Aro-semena's entire Cabinet resigned. In Peru, where a leader of Latin America's non-Communist left, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, is running strong for next June's presidential elections, the Peruvian army promised to block his presidency. "Haya," said a general, "will not set foot in the presidential palace." One Latin American who acted to curb the infection was Venezuela's President...
...absurd, negative, stupid policy. Let there be an end to all speakers of garbage." Cuba's Prime Minister made it clear that he still considers himself a Communist: "The revolution is absolutely defined as Marxist-Leninist." But he was the man in charge, and his brother Raúl from now on was Vice Premier...
...just as it has a group of Kremlinologists to study Khrushchev, regarded the show as Castro's violent reaction to the increasingly bold Communist Party takeover. But Castro, who considers himself as much messiah as Marxist, refused to go quietly-and so did his wispy-mustached little brother Raúl. On Feb. 19, according to reports reaching Miami exiles, Raul shot and seriously wounded a party leader in Oriente province in an argument over who was boss...