Editing Luis Alva Castro (section)

=== Early political career ===
Alva started at a very young age in the [[American Popular Revolutionary Alliance|Peruvian Aprista Party]], being part of the youth wing since he was 15 years old. His first partisan office was Secretary of the Northern Regional Command in 1965. He graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor in Economics from the [[National University of Trujillo]], based on the merit of his thesis titled "Economic Integration of Latin America".

At 24, he was a member of the board of directors of the Development Corporation of La Libertad (CORLIB), whose experience in planning and management applied him as an executive of private and public companies. The military government of [[Juan Velasco Alvarado]] unjustly accused him of mishandling and was imprisoned in a [[Trujillo, Peru|Trujillo]] prison, from 1970 to 1972.

During the development of the [[Constituent Assembly of Peru|Constituent Assembly of 1978–1979]], he served as Private Secretary of [[Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre]], becoming one of his most conspicuous disciples.