American Popular Revolutionary Alliance

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The Peruvian Aprista Party (Spanish: Partido Aprista Peruano, PAP) () is a Peruvian political party. The party was founded as the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (Spanish: Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana, APRA) by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, who originally intended to create a network of anti-imperialist social and political movements in Latin America. Members are called "compañeros" (roughly translated as 'partners'), based on the fraternity espoused by Haya de la Torre. Facing international pressure from the United States, which was promoting anti-communism in the Americas, the party is said to have adopted a mild right-wing populist agenda by the 1940s. The party later adopted in 2006 a new platform as García's second presidency implemented a series of policies labelled as center-right, embracing free-market capitalism, dialogue with other right-wing parties and organizations in the country, and closer ties with the Catholic Church and Evangelical churches. A number...

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