Luis Alberto Sánchez

Luis Alberto Félix Sánchez Sánchez ( born October 12, 1900 in Lima, † February 6, 1994 ) was a Peruvian literary critic, journalist, historian, writer and politician of the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana ( APRA ) and 1989 for a few months Prime Minister.

Life

Sánchez studied post-school history and was also active as a journalist. Early on, he took a leading tasks within the APRA, wherein a opinion suspension between him and José Carlos Mariátegui about the Stalinization of the party meant that Mariátegui 1928, the APRA and the left Partido Socialista del Perú founded. During the times of the dictatorships in Peru, he was several times in exile.

Later he became a professor and from 1946 to 1948 for the first time rector of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de founded in 1551 San Marcos, the oldest still existing throughout university is on the American continent by the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.

Between 1956 and the beginning of the military dictatorship of Juan Velasco Alvarado in 1968, he was a member of the then existing Senate, the upper house of Congress. 1961 to 1963 he was rector of the Universidad Nacional Mayor again de San Marcos and took office again from 1966 to 1971, when he was at the same time from July 1966 to July 1967 President of the Senate.

In 1978 he was elected for two years as a member of the Constituent Assembly before he turn to 1992 was a member of the Senate of 1980.

On May 15, 1989 Sánchez was appointed following the resignation of Armando Villanueva del Campo by President Alan García of Peru to the Prime Minister and thus de facto vice-president. However, in this office, the respected at home and abroad intellectuals only a few months until his replacement by Guillermo Larco Cox on 30 May 1989.

Publications

In addition to these activities, he was also the author of numerous books on historical and literary topics, which were published in the entire Spanish -speaking world. In addition, he translated Hitler and I, the autobiography of Otto Strasser, 1940 under the title Hitler yo y into Spanish. In addition, he wrote prefaces to books like Una novela que Comienza (1941 ) by Macedonio Fernández y una sola and 101 cartas angustia (1975 ) by Alfonso de Silva and a biography of Abraham Valdelomar.