At the end of 1962, a group of 40 militant men from the National Liberation Army (ELN), led by Héctor Béjar, tried to enter the country clandestinely through the Bolivian border to support the peasant leader Hugo Blanco in the valleys of La Convención and Lares de Cuzco. An advance …
In 1965, there were peasant mobilizations in several districts of Andahuaylas province in response to ELN (National Liberation Army) actions in Chungui, La Mar province. The ELN's actions impacted Andahuaylas province, generating more peasant mobilizations against the hacienda regime in the districts of Chicmo, Pampachiri, Pacucha, Ocobamba and Ongoy. The …
The first important event that affected the Apurímac River Valley was the 1965 guerrilla war, led by a group of the ELN headed by Héctor Béjar. This guerrilla definitely disrupted the existing order in the province of La Mar. The process of land appropriation accelerated later with the application of …
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