Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre

Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre was a Peruvian political leader who founded APRA in 1924 as a continental anti-imperialist movement and led it for more than half a century. Repeatedly imprisoned or exiled, and barred by the army from taking power, he spent five years in asylum in the Colombian embassy in Lima. He presided over the Constituent Assembly that drafted the constitution of 1979 and died that year.