Armando Villanueva
Armando Villanueva del Campo is a historical leader of the Peruvian American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. Villanueva was born in 1915 and at the age of 15 became an APRA party member in opposition to the military dictatorship of Luis Miguel Sanchez Cerro. At the age of 18 he was imprisoned for his activities in Fronton prison in Peru. He was a political ally and personal friend of Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, the founder and most prominent leader of the APRA party.
Villanueva spent most of his early life in different prisons for his political activities. In 1940, along with other APRA political activists, Villanueva was exiled to Chile. Between the 1940s and 1960s Villanueva would spend his time in between Peruvian prisons and deportation to Chile.
From 1963 to 1968 Villanueva served as a deputy in the lower house of the Peruvian legislature representing Lima, serving as President of the House of Deputies from 1966 to 1967. Villanueva led the Aprista opposition to the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado.
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