Free Hugo Blanco
Title
Free Hugo Blanco
Subject
unknown
Description
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.
Creator
unknown
Source
Roz Payne
Publisher
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
ca. late-1960s
Format
Button
Type
Physical Object
Collection
Citation
unknown, “Free Hugo Blanco,” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed May 1, 2024, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/251.