ABSTRACT
Students continued to organize throughout Latin America in the 1920s and 1930s. Even though the flagship of Latin American student resist-- ance in Argentina had sunk by 1919, the revolutionary wake it generated swept over its neighboring nations. In 1922, and again in 1924, Colombian students inspired by the reform movement in Argentina held national conferences and formed the Federation de Estudiantes Colombianos, an extremely active, if relatively ineffectual, political organization. The Colombian federation used tactics similar to those employed by the Argentine students, but because the students lacked public support and the Colombian government was willing to use force against them, the group achieved little. In May 1923 students from the University of San Marcos at Lima protested against Peruvian president Augusto Leguía's autocratic policies. Again, suppression was swift and violent; the Peruvian police fell on the demonstrators, killing two pro-- testers. After the suppression, Leguía shut down the university and deported the leaders of the demonstrations. Led by pariah Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, a new group, the Alianza Popular Revolucionara Americana, or APRA, movement (members of which were known as Apristas), spread through Latin America calling for unity and solidarity across all Latin American nations, and among all of its peoples and classes. The Apristas were anti-imperialists and revolutionary socialists whose goals of social reform and nationalism of industry heavily influ-- enced many national Latin American student organizations.1
