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Hugo Blanco
Hugo Blanco Galdos is a Peruvian political figure and leader of the Campesino Confederation of Peru.
In the early 1960s he led the Quechua peasant uprising in the Cuzco region of Peru. Captured by the military, he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment on the island of El Fronton. During his imprionsment he wrote [[Land or Death: The Peasant Struggle in Peru]].
Blanco was released from prison and expelled to Sweden in 1976 following an international solidarity campaign that included Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Bertrand Russell. After spending several years of exile in Sweden, Mexico and Chile he returned to Peru in 1978, was a founder of the Workers Revolutionary Party and was elected to parliament on a left-wing slate.
He served in the Peruvian Senate as a representative of the Partido Unificado Mariateguista until 1992 when he fled to Mexico where he was granted asylum following due to Alberto Fujimori's "self-coup" and declaration of a state of emergency.
Hugo Blanco is currently Director of a Cusco-based newspaper called Lucha Indigena.
External links
Lucha Indigena Website
Hugo Blanco arrested for supporting farmers struggle
Peru: Veteran Guerilla Fighter Hugo Blanco Speaks on Amazon Struggle
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