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Biography of Victor Raul Haya de la Torre
Name: Victor Raul Haya de la Torre
Birth Date: February 22, 1895
Death Date: 1979
Place of Birth: Trujillo, Peru
Nationality: Peruvian
Gender: Male
Occupations: theorist, activist
Victor Raul Haya de la Torre
Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre (1895-1979) was the founder and leader of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), principal theorist of Aprismo, and three-time presidential candidate (in the 1930s and 1960s) of the Peruvian Aprista Party. He spent most of his adult life in jail, in exile, or in hiding from the police.Victor Raúl Haya was born in Trujillo, Peru, on Feb. 22, 1895; his father was a newspaper publisher and his mother a descendant of a president of Peru. He studied at Trujillo National University and San Marcos University, but did not graduate. From the beginning, he took up popular causes and involved himself in radical movements. He said, "I have always preferred doing to discussing," and he believed doing and organizing were inseparable. He became involved in agitation on student reform issues, but was jailed in 1923 and then deported over an incident involving freedom of …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…in Paris. A month before Haya de la Torre's death in 1979, APRA announced that once again, he was to be their presidential candidate.Haya was a great orator who addressed meetings of up to 250,000 Peruvians. His significant contributions to political theory were to emphasize that Latin America's political parties must seek indigenous roots and to oppose violence as a means of achieving political power. His ideas have been adopted by political parties in all parts of Latin America. Associated Organizations Further Reading No good biography of Haya has been published in English. Robert J. Alexander, Prophets of the Revolution: Profiles of Latin American Leaders (1962), has a chapter on Haya. Recommended for an understanding of the man and the Aprista movement are Harry Kantor, The Ideology and Program of the Peruvian Aprista Movement (1953); and Grant Hilliker, The Politics of Reform in Peru: The Aprista and Other Mass Parties of Latin America (1971).
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