Luis Alberto Flores Medina (

Ayabaca Ayabaca is a town in the highlands of the Piura Region in northwestern Peru, near the border with Ecuador. It is located in the Ayabaca Province and is capital of that province and Ayabaca District, to the southeast of the Ecuadorian border tow ...

, October 11, 1899 — Lima, May 28, 1969) was a Peruvian lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was the Supreme Chief of the Revolutionary Union, a

fascist Fascism is a far-right, Authoritarianism, authoritarian, ultranationalism, ultra-nationalist political Political ideology, ideology and Political movement, movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and pol ...

party modelled after its italian counterpart, after the assassination of the party's founder, Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro. He also served as a

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for Lima and as

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for

Piura Piura is a city in northwestern Peru located in the Sechura Desert on the Piura River. It is the capital of the Piura Region and the Piura Province. Its population was 484,475 as of 2017. It was here that Spanish Conqueror Francisco Pizarro fou ...

and Minister of Navy and Aviation, Government and Police and President of the Council of Ministers of Peru.

Early life

Flores was born in

, on October 11, 1899. He grew up in a neighbourhood popular for its cuisine known as "La Mangachería", and took part in right-wing academic circles growing up.

Political career

Flores was part of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro's cabinet, as well as an ''urrista'', i.e. a member of his political party, Revolutionary Union. Under Sánchez Cerro, Flores served as Prime Minister, and Minister of Government and Police (1932), as well as Minister of Navy and Aviation (1933) and member of Congress (1931–1936). After Sánchez Cerro's assassination, he took over his political party and modelled it after Italian fascism. After the anullment of the

1936 Peruvian general election General elections were held in Peru on 11 October 1936.

, Flores and his party reportedly planned a coup d'état which was discovered, leading to his exile in Chile, where he supported himself using the funds he gained from his ''hacienda'' in

Cajamarca Cajamarca (), also known by the Quechua name, ''Kashamarka'', is the capital and largest city of the Cajamarca Region as well as an important cultural and commercial center in the northern Andes. It is located in the northern highlands of Peru ...

Later life

Flores returned to Peru in the early 1940s and reorganized his political party, which never achieved the same results it reached in 1936. He later served as deputy for his native

, as well as ambassador of Peru in Italy and Paraguay, where he made comments in support of the '' Hispanidad''. He died in Lima on May 28, 1969.

References

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