Editing Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (section)

==Death==
[[File:Tumba de Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre en Trujillo.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Haya de la Torre tomb in [[Trujillo, Peru|Trujillo]], [[La Libertad Region|La Libertad]].]]
On July 12, 1979, Haya signed the Constitution on his deathbed. Suffering from lung cancer, Haya died on August 2, 1979, in Mercedes Villa, his home located in the [[Ate District]]. On his deathbed he was awarded the [[Order of the Sun of Peru]], in the rank of Grand Cross. At the moment of his death, several party leaders were present, including [[Luis Alberto Sánchez]], [[Ramiro Prialé]], [[Andrés Townsend]], [[Javier Valle Riestra]], [[Armando Villanueva]], [[Carlos Roca Cáceres]] and [[Alan García]]. Then-president of the United States, [[Jimmy Carter]], sent a letter expressing his condolences to Haya's brother, Edmundo.<ref name="washingtonpost1979" />

His casket was taken to the party headquarters and received by a huge crowd of supporters and followers, who accompanied the transfer of his remains from Lima to his hometown in [[Trujillo, Peru|Trujillo]]. He was buried in the Miraflores General Cemetery in downtown [[Trujillo, Peru|Trujillo]]. His coffin rests under a large rock with the phrase "Here lies the light."<ref>Chang-Rodríguez, 2007, p.340.</ref>

The last years of Haya de la Torre's life were spent in her home in Chaclacayo de Villa Mercedes, which became a house of worship for many Peruvians. Later it became known that the house was bought by a drug trafficker, Carlos Langberg, who had financed the Aprista electoral campaign of 1980.