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Manuel A. Odria
Manuel Arturo Odria Amoretti was the President of Peru from 1948 to 1956.
Odria was born in 1897 in Tarma, a city in the central Andes just east of Lima. He graduated first in his class from the Chorillos Military Academy in 1915. He joined the army and as a lieutenant-colonel was a war hero in the 1941 border conflict with Ecuador. He soon achieved the rank of General.
In 1945, Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero had attained the presidency with the help of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA). Soon, major disagreements arose between Victor Raul Haya de la ...
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