Early Life
When Blanco was a child he heard that a landowner applied a redhot iron on an indigenous man. When he was 10 he met an indigenous leader who told him the story of his struggles. He involved himself in school strikes against Odria, which the students won. At age 20 he traveled to Buenos Aires and began studying in the university. There he joined a workers' party after he met Argentinian Trotskyists. Without finishing his agronomical studies in Argentina’s Universidad de la Plata he became a worker in a factory because he did not want to work for the landowners. He worked on a coffee plantation as a subtenant farmer.
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