- Hugo Blanco
Hugo Blanco Galdos is a
Peru vian political figure and leader of theCampesino Confederation of Peru .In the early 1960s he led the
Quechua peasant uprising in theCuzco region ofPeru . Captured by the military, he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment on the island ofEl Frontón . During his imprionsment he wrote "".Blanco was released from prison and expelled to
Sweden in 1976 [Peruvian leftist leader Hugo Blanco expelled to Sweden from Peru, New York Times, 13 July 1976] following an international solidarity campaign that includedJean-Paul Sartre ,Simone de Beauvoir , andBertrand Russell . After spending several years of exile in Sweden,Mexico andChile he returned to Peru in 1978, was a founder of the Workers Revolutionary Party and was elected to parliament on a left-wing slate. [ [http://www.counterpunch.org/blanco08162007.html Hugo Blanco: Nuestra Cultura ] ]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 [MEXICO GRANTED POLITICAL ASYLUM TO PERUVIAN SENATOR, Latin American Business News Wire Notimex/Federal News Service, 8 July 1992] due toAlberto Fujimori 's "self-coup" and declaration of astate of emergency . [PERUVIAN POLITICAL CRISIS: SUMMARY OF EVENTS, APRIL 8, Notisur-South American & Caribbean Political Affairs Latin American Database/Latin American Institute, April 22, 1992]Hugo Blanco is currently Director of a Cusco-based newspaper called "Lucha Indigena". He is a member of the editorial board of
Sin Permiso External links
* [http://luchaindigena.tk/ Lucha Indigena Website]
* [http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1536 Hugo Blanco arrested for supporting farmers’ struggle]References
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