The hawk-nosed little man raised his arms, as if in benediction, and 1,000 Peruvian Indians at the airport in the remote jungle town of Iquitos responded with a thunderclap cheer: “Haya presidente!
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 ...