Apran.
/ˈaprə/ The name of a Peruvian reform movement and political party founded in 1924.
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1935 Foreign Affairs XIII. 236 The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, commonly known as APRA.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XI. 282/2 The Apra party is perhaps chiefly important for making politically conscious for the first time the Peruvian Indians who..comprise nearly half the country's population.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 623 Apra was outlawed in 1933 as an international organization akin to communism... In 1945,..President Prado..lifted the ban on Apra.
1963 Times 7 June 13/7 The chief role in the education of the Indian in the facts of modern life has been played by Dr. Haya de la Torre and the party he founded in 1924, the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (A.P.R.A.).
1970 D. Goldrich et al. in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. v. 190 The opposition majority congressional coalition (composed of APRA, Peru's erstwhile radical reform party, and the personalist party of former dictator General Odría).
1979 Penguin Dict. 20th Cent. Hist. (1982) 300 Although Apra had a parliamentary majority from 1945 to 1948 it was unable to carry out any fundamental reforms.
1983 Financial Times 15 Nov. 5/1 The victors were the left-of-centre Apra party which swept the board in the majority of districts outside Lima.
Derivatives
Aˈprismo n. = Apra n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Central and South American politics > [noun] > specific Peruvian party or movement
Apra1935
Aprismo1935
Sendero Luminoso1981
Shining Path1982
SL1986
1935 Foreign Affairs XIII. 236 Aprismo just missed being swept into power.
1937 Republics S. Amer. (Royal Inst. Internat. Affairs) vi. 165 Aprismo is potentially an international movement, but in practice it has come to mean the Aprista Party of Peru. From 1925 onwards cells had been formed both in Paris and Latin American countries where Apristas were in exile.
Aˈprista n. a member of Apra; also attributive or as adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Central and South American politics > [adjective] > specific Peruvian party or movement
Aprista1937
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Central and South American politics > [noun] > specific Peruvian party or movement > member of
Aprista1937
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1937Aprista [see Aprismo n.].
1953 H. Kantor (title) The ideology and program of the Aprista movement.
1965 J. L. Payne Labor & Politics in Peru i. ii 42 In essence, the Aprista movement was one of reform.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIV. 136/1 The military, fearing an alliance between the conservatives and the Apristas.., stepped in and seized the government.
1983 N.Y. Times 20 Nov. 75/3 The Apristas, who were moderate leftists, had been harshly repressed by the dictatorships.
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