The population in the valleys of La Convención and Lares experienced significant demographic growth between 1940 and 1961. From 27,243 inhabitants in 1940, the population increased to 66,394 inhabitants in 1961, representing an increase of 144% in twenty years. This population growth occurred in the context of important agrarian transformations …
The first period of the guerrillas, between 1961 and 1963, brought together the experiences of the Revolutionary Left Front (FIR) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), whose objective was to support the peasant mobilization of Chaupimayo, in the valleys of La Convención and Lares de Cuzco, led by the peasant …
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 …
The Constituent Assembly elections of June 4, 1978 were won by the APRA. In these elections, Hugo Blanco obtained a little more than half a million votes, becoming one of the most voted candidates thanks to the support of the peasantry of Cuzco. In Puno, Róger Cáceres, representative of the …
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