APRA, an alternative Latin American project to positivist ideas about the destiny of Latin American society

Abstract

The APRA emerged at the beginning of the 20th century in Peru and its mentor was Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre. It intends to propose a development model for the Latin American continent that includes the "Indian", from a different conception to the positivist outlines that existed until then, since the very creation of the "modern States" at the end of the 19th century in the territory. , with racist ideas typical of a Eurocentric conception. For these Europeanized bourgeois creoles, the question of the "Indian" is a problem that must be solved in racial biologisitic terms and not as a social variable. For Haya de la Torre, the "Indian" cannot be left out in the identity construction of the Latin American nation, hence, in the very creation of the movement and its flag, he proposed the name "Indoamerica" ​​for the continent.