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 Frontón. During his imprionsment he wrote . Blanco was released from prison and expelled to Sweden in 1976[1] following an international solidarity campaign that included Che Guevara, 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.[2] 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[3] due to Alberto Fujimori's "self-coup" and declaration of a state of emergency.[4] Hugo Blanco is currently Director of a Cusco-based newspaper called Lucha Indigena.
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- ^ Peruvian leftist leader Hugo Blanco expelled to Sweden from Peru, New York Times, 13 July 1976
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- ^ MEXICO GRANTED POLITICAL ASYLUM TO PERUVIAN SENATOR, Latin American Business News Wire Notimex/Federal News Service, 8 July 1992
- ^ PERUVIAN POLITICAL CRISIS: SUMMARY OF EVENTS, APRIL 8, Notisur-South American & Caribbean Political Affairs Latin American Database/Latin American Institute, April 22, 1992
