Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (22 February 1895 - 2 August 1979), founder of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) party. "Haya de la Torre advocated a system of Latin American (or, to use

Ví£´or Ra�l Haya de la Torre (22 February 1895 - 2 August 1979),

founder of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) party.

"Haya de la Torre advocated a system of Latin American (or, to use his

preferred term, Indo-American) solutions to Latin American problems.

He called upon the region to reject both U.S. imperialism and Soviet

communism. He favored universal democracy, equal rights and respect

for indigenous populations, and socialist economic policies such as

agrarian reform, based on the concept of communal land ownership, and

state control of industry. Haya de la Torre advocated the overthrow of

the land-owning oligarchies that had ruled Peru since colonial days,

replacing them with an idealistic socialist elite. However, in

exchange for attaining legal status for the party, he made

opportunistic ideological swings to the right, and by the 1950s it had

jettisoned most of its progressive, socialist ideals." from wiki