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Victor Raul Haya de la Torre
Victor Raul Haya de la Torre was a Peruvian political leader who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) political movement.
Life
Haya de la Torre was born in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo. In 1913 he enrolled in the National university of Trujillo to study literature, where he met and forged a solid friendship with the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo. He then enrolled in the National University of San Marcos in Lima.
He was instrumental in bringing the ideas of the Argentine University Reform movement (La Reforma) to San Marcos, and administrative reforms were instituted in 1919. Part ...
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