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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. Political party in Peru Peruvian Aprista Party Partido Aprista Peruano Abbreviation PAP APRA President César Trelles General Secretaries Belén García (Institutional) Benigno Chirinos (Political) Political Commission Chairman Mauricio Mulder Founder Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre ...
The Revolutionary Left Movement (in Spanish: Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria) was a Marxist–Leninist guerilla group founded in Peru in 1962 by Luis de la Puente Uceda and his group APRA Rebelde, a splinter group from the APRA which had rallied the government in the 1950s and 1960s.
APRA Rebelde was a splinter group of the Peruvian APRA. APRA Rebelde was formed in 1959, by a group that was expelled from APRA at a National Congress on October 12. The leader of the group, APRA Rebelde started orienting itself towards the radical Marxist left. In 1962 the group was refounded as the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR).
The Casa del Pueblo (Spanish: House of the People) is a building that serves as the main headquarters of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, a political party in Peru. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In addition to its political functions, it also provides social services , incling education, healthcare and soup kitchen .
Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (February 22, 1895 – August 2, 1979) was a Peruvian politician, philosopher, and author who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) political movement, the oldest currently existing political party in Peru by the name of the Peruvian Aprista Party (PAP).
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero became the president of Peru in the 1945 elections with the support of the National Democratic Front, an alliance of parties including APRA (under the name "People's Party"), the Peruvian Communist Party, and other democratic and left-leaning parties. He also had the support of unionists and the popular classes.
Abelardo Mendoza Leyva (Cerro de Pasco; April 11, 1914 — Lima; April 30, 1933) was a Peruvian militant of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) who assassinated President Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro while he was reviewing troops at the Santa Beatriz racetrack and was at the same time killed by his presidential escort.
It seemed that for Peru the time for democratisation and moderate changes had begun under the sign of conciliation and understanding. [1] However, it would be this alliance with APRA that would distort his government since a government was installed where the APRAs had participation in several ministries as well as control in Congress.