APRA Rebelde, a splinter-group of the PeruvianAPRA. APRA Rebelde was formed in 1959, by a group that was expelled from APRA at a National Congress on October 12. The leader of the group was APRA Rebelde started orienting itself towards the radical Marxist left. In 1962 the group is refounded as the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). APRA could refer to the: American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, a Peruvian political party Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Australasian Performing Rights Association This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
During the uprising of October 1948 in Peru, when he was a military pilot, he refused to bomb sailors and members of the left wing of the APRA (the sector of this bourgeois nationalist party which had started an uprising).
While I was still in Cuba, and following Che's advice, I joined the APRARebelde, the left wing of the APRA, the party of Haya de la Torre and afterwards of Alan Garcia 6.
This group was expelled from APRA in November 1959, and quickly made its sympathy with Cuba public.