Word: maximo
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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What Haya and a lot of his followers feared was assassination. Remembering what happened to Gaitan in Bogota, Haya had ordered the No. 2 Aprista, handsome Manuel Seoane, to stay in Chile for a while, to be ready to take over if something should happen to the Jefe Maximo (supreme chieftain). Most people in Peru agreed that, should Haya be assassinated, APRA's answer would probably be revolution...
Chin jutting, arms flaying, the Jefe Maximo accused his enemies of planning dictatorship. "Their denials won't fool anybody," he shouted. "There is dictatorship when one rules by decree, infringes the constitution, betrays Parliament, proves disloyal to the people's will. The time to speak out is at hand. I won't be silenced by threats. They will have to do to me what was done to Colombia's Gaitan . . . We want peace, not war, but let no one forget we are the strongest...