Editing Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (section)

==The Coexistence (1956–1962)==
In 1956, the three main presidential candidates assured the return to legality of the APRA party; by virtue of this offer, Haya de la Torre initially supported businessman Hernando de Lavalle, and later [[Manuel Prado Ugarteche]], a symbol of economic power, who, thanks to this support, was successful. Peru would oversee a mega-coalition that buttressed the second Pradista government: president Manuel Prado y Ugarteche himself, Haya de la Torre, [[Manuel A. Odría]], [[Pedro Beltrán Espantoso|Pedro Beltrán]], Eudocio Ravines and Julio de la Piedra. It was, therefore, "a regime to which the [[American Popular Revolutionary Alliance|Peruvian Aprista Party]] has supported with proven loyalty and determination."

Haya and his party —in its early days clearly anti-oligarchic— thus sustained a clearly oligarchic regime, probably with the hope of coming to power by legal means and already exercising them, to make the appropriate reforms. Years later, consulted by Julio Cotler on the matter, Haya replied that "he had misjudged the situation and thought that the oligarchy had more strength than it really had."