More than 35 years ago, a stocky Peruvian student named Victor Raul Haya de la Torre started one of Latin America's first mass-based political movements. He called it the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), and from the moment of its founding Haya was so harassed by Peru's wealthy oligarchy and archconservative military that he spent at least 30 of the 36 years in prison, in asylum or out of the country. Last week -protected by APRA's current alliance with the enlightened conservatism of Peru's President Manuel Prado-Haya de la Torre, now 66, came home to Lima to take command of...
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