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Hugo Blanco: “I was neither a ‘Castroite guerrilla' nor a ‘terrorist'”

Hugo Blanco — 2020-11-23T09:14:49Z

International Viewpoint previously published a statement rebutting the attacks against Hugo Blanco, “Massive support for Hugo Blanco faced with ultra-right attacks”. Here he speaks in his own words.

- IV550 - November 2020 / Fourth International, Peru

Send Fujimori back to prison

Hugo Blanco — 2018-01-02T08:46:44Z

Taking advantage of the holiday season, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuzinski (PPK) freed former dictator Alberto Fujimori, imprisoned for multiple murder. Christmas Eve is called " the night of peace, night of love" but the Christmas gift of PPK to the Peruvian people was to free the symbol of war and hatred against our people .

- IV516 - January 2018 / Peru

Massacre at Bagua

Hugo Blanco — 2009-07-23T12:52:49Z

On June 5, 2009, world environment day, Awajun and Wami defenders of the environment were massacred in Peru.

- IV414 - July 2009 / Ecology and the Environment, Peru, Indigenous struggles

" I promise to keep fighting until my last breath"

Hugo Blanco — 2008-10-04T21:24:08Z

First of all, I want to express my gratitude to all individuals and institutions that, once they heard about my arrest, demanded my liberty. Your support was very important. I want to specially thank our Canadian friends, whose support has made it possible for Lucha Indigena still to be published.

- IV405 - October 2008 / Peru, Indigenous struggles

A Triumphant Advance

Hugo Blanco — 2007-11-22T10:09:33Z

[The Country Alliance Movement (Movimiento Alianza PaÃs) and President Rafael Correa's anti-imperialist government won a landslide victory in the recent elections for Ecuador's new Constituent Assembly.]

- IV394 - November 2007 / Ecuador

The Epic Struggle of Indigenous Andean-Amazonian Culture

Hugo Blanco — 2007-09-02T08:27:28Z

We are defending our culture in its diverse aspects: our cosmic vision, social organization, our rituals and agricultural know-how, medicine, music, language, and many others. We do not claim that our culture is superior to others. We are struggling to stop it from being considered inferior. We want to be respected as equals.

- IV392 - September 2007 / Latin America, Indigenous struggles

A revolutionary process that is different

Hugo Blanco — 2006-03-05T14:09:35Z

I was in Bolivia when the presidential mandate was transferred to Evo Morales. I was invited by comrade Evo.
An atmosphere of revolutionary process floated in the air and imbued the people. It could be seen by the numbers who assembled and by the revolutionary fervour of people on the occasion of the big rallies.

- IV376 - March 2006 / Bolivia

Hugo Blanco greets Congress

Hugo Blanco — 2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

A leader of the peasant uprising in the Cuzco region of Peru in the early 1960s, a symbol of the unity and renewal of the Peruvian revolutionary left in 1978-1980, imprisoned, threatened with death, exiled and freed thanks to international solidarity, Hugo Blanco has in the last year faced what for him is a new enemy - illness.

- IV349 - May 2003 / Fourth International

Elections in Peru

Hugo Blanco, Juan Abugatas — 2001-05-03T00:00:00Z

The first round of the Peruvian presidential elections on Sunday April 8, 2001 produced a major surprise - Wall Street's favoured candidate, Lourdes Flores, came third and was eliminated from the contest. The second round [on June 3] will now be contested between Alexander Toledo (who scored 36.46%) and Alán GarcÃa, the candidate of the APRA party, who was president from 1985 to 1990, who secured 26% of the vote.

- IV331 - May 2001 / Peru