General Manuel A. Odría has the honor of being buried in the Santa Ana de Tarma Cathedral, very close to the main altar. He must be, perhaps, the only Latin American dictator, at least in the 20th century, who enjoys that posthumous privilege. The people of Tarm thus thanked their favorite son who,
Born in the midst of the internal commotions that had torn the country apart; formed by men without ideas or principles, for the most part; led by a soldier [Agustín Gamarra], to whom a triumph had subdued all men and all things, whose administrative science was reduced only to intrigue and the sord
The halt vote represented an imposing and arbitrary electoral form imposed by the colonels. Definition Halter vow is an expression given by the superposition of two words. Thus, we have Vote , which is the full exercise of democracy; and the word Halt , from Latin capistrum , which means gag or br
The deep traces left in society by the reforms undertaken more than four decades ago by the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado are analyzed by the historian Nelson Manrique in an interview with the journalist Edmundo Cruz published in the newspaper La República in 2009, when he 41 years ha