Winner Loses
Photograph
Winner Loses
Peru: Generals Win, Voters Lose
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/2 × 6 5/16 in. (24.1 × 16.1 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0316
Inscriptions Inscribed in red in on recto LC: 28
Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Peru) 7/62 28) WINNER LOSES: APRA's leader Haya de la Torre was clearly \ dismayed when he learned that his election lead was so slim as to make a \ crisis inevitable. This week the Army generals, his longtime implacable \ foes, forced the foxy old leftist into hiding - a situation he knows well \ after 35 years of Peruvian politics, inscluding more than five years when \ he was forced to take refuge in the Colombian Embassy in Lima. \ Credit: ANDREW ST. GEORGE © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Peru) 7/62 28) WINNER LOSES: APRA's leader Haya de la Torre was clearly \ dismayed when he learned that his election lead was so slim as to make a \ crisis inevitable. This week the Army generals, his longtime implacable \ foes, forced the foxy old leftist into hiding - a situation he knows well \ after 35 years of Peruvian politics, inscluding more than five years when \ he was forced to take refuge in the Colombian Embassy in Lima. \ Credit: ANDREW ST. GEORGE © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
