National Democratic Front (Peru)
National Democratic Front Frente Democrático Nacional | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | FREDENA |
| Leader | José Luis Bustamante y Rivero |
| Founded | 3 June 1944 |
| Dissolved | 27 October 1948 |
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National Democratic Front (in Spanish: Frente Democrático Nacional) was a political coalition in Peru that was founded in 1944 in Arequipa by ultraconservative Manuel J. Bustamante de la Fuente[1] in order to launch the presidencial campaign of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero for the 1945 general election.[2]
The initial coalition comprised APRA, the far-right Reformist Democratic Party and the fascist Revolutionary Union party, ultimately excluding the Peruvian Communist Party.[1][3] The party ran under the banner of the People’s Party within the coalition, with an array of intellectuals rallying around Bustamante.[4]
Upon Manuel Odría’s successful coup d’état in October 1948 against Bustamante’s presidency, the coalition ceased to exist.[5]
References
- ^ a b Villanueva, Victor; Crabtree, Peter (Summer 1977). "The Petty-Bourgeois Ideology of the Peruvian Aprista Party". Latin American Perspectives. 4 (3): 73.
In the elections of 1939 APRA stood ready to ally with ... the fascist Union Revolucionaria (UR) whose leader, Luis A. Flores, described himself as a "fascist by temperament and conviction" ... APRA allied itself to Manuel Prado, ... Apristas who had already voted for Prado, and his triumph was due to this support and to the electoral fraud effected by Benavides. In 1944 APRA formed part of the reformist Frente Democratico Nacional (FDN) ... including the fascist UR, ... The triumph of the FDN made Dr. Bustamante y Rivero the new President; he belonged to the ultra-conservative sector ... In the elections called in 1950 ... the Aprista Party supported the candidacy of the ultra-conservative General Ernesto Montagne, an ex-minister in the Sanchez Cerro and Benavides dictatorships.
- ^ Las Joyas de Arequipa (26 March 2020). "José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, el intelectual arequipeño más brillante del Siglo XX". Arequipa Misti Press (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ Iriarte, José Antonio (12 February 2024). "El APRA y su lucha por la libertad, por José Antonio Torres Iriarte". El Reporte (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ Portocarrero, Gonzalo. "Frente Democrático Nacional: Una promesa frustada" (PDF). Repositorio PUCP (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ "Manuel Arturo Odría: El dictador afortunado". El Comercio (in European Spanish). 20 November 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
120 years after his birth, an X-ray of Manuel Odría, one of the most controversial characters in our history.