magazine, Apra, and by publishing and editing various propaganda pamphlets. The government of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro followed Leguía's regime, whose goal was to eliminate the Aprista movement and his administration persistently persecuted them. This persecution forced Portal and many other Apra members to live clandestinely and continue with Apra work illegally. In 1933, Sánchez Cerro was assassinated by an Aprista militant. With Sanchez Cerro out of power, Oscar Benavides stepped into power. The same year, Portal was named the National Secretary of Women's Affair for the Aprista party. In this leadership position Portal traveled around Peru and eventually was imprisoned once again. When she finally received her freedom in 1936, Portal travelled to Bolivia, then to Argentina, and onwards to Chile. In 1945, Portal returned to Peru. Her opinions on the Aprista party's ideals began to differ from the others, and felt betrayed by the party. In 1949, [This break came in 1950] she publicly broke from the Aprista party, after feeling that the part had strayed from its original and anti-imperialist goals. She continued her activist role, however, and continued to advocate strongly for women's rights throughout the 1970s. Literary accomplishments By the 1970s and 1980s, Portal's literary accomplishments began receiving increased critical attention. Portal had begun her writing in the 1920s. She was a recognized leader in the vanguardia literary movement. She wrote and published poetry, books, and newspaper and magazine articles all over South America, many of which conveyed her progressive views on women's rights. In 1980 Portal was elected the president of the Asociación Nacional de Escritores y Artistas and is still remembered as a literary leader in Latin America. Portal died in 1989. Portal's personal and literary archive was purchased by the Benson Latin American Collection in 1986. Selected works Una Esperanza y El Mar. 1927 Flora Tristan, Precursora. 1944 Costa Sur. 1945 Constancia del Ser. 1955 La Trampa. 1957 References Sources Flores, Angel. Spanish American Authors: The Twentieth Century. New York: HW Wilson, 1992. Klarén, Peter Flindell. Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Portaro, Iliana. Escritoras vanguardistas: la utilización de géneros menores y la prensa escrita peruana a principios del siglo XX. Doctoral diss., University of California, Davis, 2013. Reedy, Daniel R. Spanish American Women Writers: A Bio-Biographical Source Book. Diane E. Marting, ed. Connecticut: Greenwood, 1990. Smith, Myriam Gonzales. Poética e Ideología en Magda Portal: Otras