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Leader of the Campesino Confederation of Peru, Hugo Blanco Galdos led a working-class and peasant revolt in Cuzco, advocating for peasant rights to education, legal justice, and agrarian reform measures. Blanco was arrested in the early-1960s for allegedly shooting a police officer. His case received national and international support as Hugo Blanco represented the long-standing police corruption in Peru as well as the Peruvian government’s anti-trade unionist politics. From a U.S. perspective, this button suggests the global perspective of the New Left during the 1960s and 1970s.