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We Will No Longer Be Servile: Aprismo in 1930s Ayacucho

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2006

JAYMIE PATRICIA HEILMAN
JAYMIE PATRICIA HEILMAN
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Abstract

This article challenges the notion that the APRA party's poor electoral showings in Peru's southern sierra during the 1930s reflected regional lack of interest in the party and that APRA held little appeal for indigenous peasants. Focusing on two rural districts in the department of Ayacucho, the article reveals that APRA was indeed a formidable presence in rural Ayacucho during the 1930s. With its calls for regional inclusion and decentralisation, APRA appealed to progressive hacendados, schoolteachers and even wealthy peasants, who linked APRA's national discourses to their local struggles for political power and land.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , August 2006 , pp. 491 - 518
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I thank Florencia Mallon, Gladys McCormick and the four anonymous JLAS reviewers for their comments on earlier versions of this article.