Luis Alberto Sánchez
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| Luis Alberto Sanchez |
Peruvian politician and
author
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Luis
Alberto Sánchez,
Peruvian politician and author (born Oct. 12, 1900, Lima, Peru—died Feb. 6, 1994, Lima), was a prolific man of letters who wrote more than 70
volumes of history, biography, literary criticism, philosophy, fiction, poetry, and
autobiography and was politically prominent as a longtime member of the
centre-left American Popular
Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), which was founded by Victor Raúl Haya de
la Torre to
combat imperialism in Latin America. Sánchez, an APRA loyalist, founded the
party’s newspaper, Tribuna, in 1931, the same year he was elected to
Congress. The following year, however, he was imprisoned briefly by the military government of Luis Sánchez Cerro, and for the next 25
years he endured persecution and exile at the hands of successive military
governments as a result of his APRA affiliation. Sánchez was elected to the
Senate in 1963, 1980, and 1985, and he served as the chairman of the 1978-79 Constituent Assembly that drafted a new Peruvian
constitution. When Alan García became the country’s first APRA president in
1985, Sánchez was given the post of vice president, and he served briefly as prime minister in 1989, the year before García’s term in
office expired. Sánchez also served (1946-61) as rector of the National University
of San Marcos, his alma mater.
With affection,
Ruben
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