Return To Peru
After spending several years of exile in Sweden, Mexico and Chile he returned to Peru in 1978, was a founder of the Workers Revolutionary Party and was elected to parliament on a left-wing slate.
In 1980 he was a presidential candidate in Peru, a Leftist Revolutionary Alliance formed to support him. He came in fourth out of sixteen candidates. In 1983 he accused General Clemente Noel, who was then the military chief of the Ayacucho region of murder. Because of this he was suspended from his seat until the end of the current session.
He served in the Peruvian Senate as a representative of the Partido Unificado Mariateguista until 1992 because of Alberto Fujimori's "self-coup" and declaration of a state of emergency, after he received information that both the Peruvian Intelligence Police and by Shining Path had sentenced him to death. Together with two of his children and his wife, he fled to Mexico where he was granted asylum following.
After the Healy Group stated that Joseph Hansen, George Novack and the Socialist Workers Party were aiding Joseph Stalin’s assassins, he signed a statement that refuted the allegations against them.
Hugo Blanco is currently Director of a Cusco-based newspaper called Lucha Indígena,and a member of the editorial board of Sin Permiso. He stated that today it is no longer logical to form a Trotskyist party. Today he believes in the Ideology of Zapatism. He is opposed to the current state of affairs, where the government sells off the rain forests to the oil corporations.
In 2008 he was arrested for the crime of “Violence and resisting authority" Many people and institutions demanded his liberation, and since he was not present at the date where the Incident happened, the authorities freed him.
Hugo Blanco is also author of the book of his memories: Nosotros los Indios, published in a second edition in October 2010 in Argentina.
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