Manuel A. Odría

Manuel A. Odría
Manuel Arturo Odria Amoretti
79th. President of Peru
In office
October 27, 1948 – June 1, 1950
Preceded by José Bustamante
Succeeded by Zenón Noriega
81st President of Peru
In office
July 28, 1950 – July 28, 1956
Preceded by Zenón Noriega
Succeeded by Manuel Prado
Personal details
Born November 26, 1897(1897-11-26)
Died February 18, 1974(1974-02-18) (aged 76)
Nationality Peruvian
Political party Unión Nacional Odriista
Profession Army General

Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti (November 26, 1897 – February 18, 1974) was the President of Peru from 1948 to 1956.

Manuel Odría was born in 1897 in Tarma, a city in the central Andes just east of Lima. He graduated first in his class from the Chorillos Military Academy in 1915. He joined the army and as a lieutenant-colonel was a war hero in the 1941 Ecuadorian-Peruvian war. He soon achieved the rank of Brigadier General.

In 1945, José Bustamante had attained the presidency with the help of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA). Soon, major disagreements arose between Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, the founder of APRA, and President Bustamante. The President disbanded his Aprista cabinet and replaced it with a mostly military one. Odría, a fierce opponent of APRA, was appointed Minister of Government and Police. In 1948, Odría and other right-wing elements urged Bustamante to ban APRA. When the President refused, Odría resigned his post. On October 27, 1948, he led a successful military coup against the government and took over as president. After two years, he resigned and had one of his colleagues, Zenón Noriega, take office as a puppet president so he could run for president as a civilian. He was duly elected a month later as the only candidate.

Odría came down hard on APRA, momentarily pleasing the oligarchy and all others on the right, but like Juan Perón, he followed a populist course that won him great favor with the poor and lower classes. A thriving economy allowed him to indulge in expensive but crowd-pleasing social policies. At the same time, however, civil rights were severely restricted and corruption was rampant throughout his régime. It was feared that his dictatorship would run indefinitely so it came as a surprise when Odría legalized opposition parties in 1956 and called fresh elections--in which he would not be a candidate. He was succeeded by a former president, Manuel Prado.

National elections were again held in 1962 and Odría ran as a right-wing candidate for the Unión Nacional Odriista party. The initial election found none of the three major candidates - Odría, Haya de la Torre and Fernando Belaúnde - receiving the required one third of the vote. It appeared that Odría would win the Presidency in Congress, after having made a deal with Haya de la Torre, but a military coup removed President Prado from office only a few days before his term ended. Elections were again held in 1963 with the same three major candidates. This time Belaúnde won with 39% of the vote.[1]

During the Belaúnde Administration, Odría made an alliance with Haya de la Torre to create a single opposition block in Parliament, which became known as the APRA-UNO Coalition. As a political force, they managed to create a strong parliamentary force against President Belaúnde, who was forced to make important concessions to the Coalition in order to get most of his party-sponsored legislation enacted. The Coalition suffered a setback after losing the elections for mayor in the capital, Lima.

After the military coup that overthrew Belaúnde, Odría kept a low profile in Peruvian politics until his death in 1974.

Notes

  1. ^ Peru, Revolution Within the Law, TIME Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940508,00.html
Political offices
Preceded by
José Bustamante
President of Peru
1948–1950
Succeeded by
Zenón Noriega
Preceded by
Zenón Noriega
President of Peru
1950–1957
Succeeded by
Manuel Prado

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