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Armando Villanueva Del Campo (25 November 1915 – 14 April 2013)

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Armando Villanueva Del Campo                         (25 November 1915 – 14 April 2013)                          He was the leader of the Peruvian American Popular Revolutionary Alliance .   Born in Lima, his parents were Pedro Villanueva Urquijo, a gynecologist in the city, and Carmen Rosa Portal del Campo. His only legitimate sibling was his older brother Ing. Pedro Villanueva del Campo Portal. Armando y Lucia Ortega At the age of 15 Villanueva became a member of APRA's Juventud Aprista in opposition to the military dictatorship of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro . At the age of 18 he was imprisoned in El Frontón prison (located on the small island of San Lorenzo off the coast of Callao , Lima's main port) for his subversive activities in Peru. He was a political ally and personal friend of Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre , the founder and most prominent leader of the APRA party. Villanueva spent most of his early life in different prisons for his polit