Belaunde is Coming
International Politics
Fernando Belaunde Terry was a two-time president of Peru, from 1963-68 and then again from 1980-1985. Rising to power initially in the 1960s as a liberal/left reformer, Belaúnde mixed a traditional indigenous Inca emphasis on community and cooperation with a social democratic economic orientation. During his administration, the Peruvian government initiated a number of important internal development projects, including a highway system connecting the South with the more remote northern region; several irrigation and hydro-electric projects; public housing in cities; formal legal recognition for numerous indigenous groups; expanded hospital network into uncovered areas; and increased social security coverage. Belaúnde was deposed by a military coup in 1968 and forced into exile in the U.S. In 1980, the military junta agreed to allow national elections, which were won by Belaúnde. He served again as President of the country from 1980 to 1985. Under Belaunde’s administration, Peru reinstituted constitutional rule and freedom of the press. Over time, Peru’s domestic economic troubles and foreign debt led to a decrease in Belaunde’s popularity.
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Free Hugo Blanco
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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.
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s
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Palante, March 30, 1972
Puerto Rican Independence Movement
Palante was a bi-monthly, bilingual newspaper produced by the Young Lords Party. This issue features a statement from the people of Hawaii thanking the Young Lords for their aid, articles about coal mining survivors of the Cobriza massacre in Peru, a prisoners conference in New York, protests of inhumane conditions at Rikers Island Prison, police brutality, Native American rights, the arrest of Gabriel "TBA" Torres, Puerto Rican nationalist Robert Delgado, labor unrest, a letter of support for the Black Liberation Army, the Young Lords' 13 Point Program, and statement of support for former SNCC chairman H. Rap Brown, as well as information on his trial.
The Young Lords Party
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
March 30, 1972
underground press