[van-announce] Hugo Blanco Speaking Event: "Indigenous Movements and the Struggle in Latin America"

[Mike Krebs]

Indigenous Movements and the Struggle in Latin America

Featuring Hugo Blanco
Long-time activist in indigenous and peasant struggles in Peru

Monday October 8th at 7 PM
Spartacus Books, 319 West Hastings (2nd floor)

Hugo Blanco was a leader of the Quechua peasant uprising in the Cuzco region
of Peru in the early 1960s. He was captured by the military and sentenced to
25 years in El Fronton Island prison for his activities. While in prison, he
wrote Land or Death: The Peasant Struggle in Peru.

An international defense campaign that gained the support of such figures as
Ernesto Che Guevara, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Bertrand
Russell succeeded in winning his freedom. After a period in exile in Mexico,
Chile, and Sweden, Blanco returned to Peru where he won election to the
national parliament on a united left slate. He has continued to play an
active role in Peru's indigenous, campesino, and environmental movements,
and writes on Peruvian, indigenous, and Latin American issues.

Hugo will be speaking in Vancouver primarily on the indigenous struggles
currently unfolding in Bolivia and Peru, as well as their relationship to
political developments taking place throughout Latin America.

Endorsed by: La Surda, Canada Bolivia Solidarity Committee, Vancouver
Socialist Forum, New Socialist Group
More info: 604-779-7430