... Chapter 5 recounts Llamojha’s participation in a battle for control over the Peruvian Peasant Confederation, a struggle he ultimately lost. His former allies ostracized and attacked him, and the Peruvian Peasant Confederation split into three competing factions. These battles in the 1970s took...

... Pomacocha Peruvian Peasant Confederation Peruvian Communist Party-Bandera Roja Fernando Belaúnde Terry agrarian reform ...

... Peruvian Peasant Confederation Saturnino Paredes Vanguardia Revolucionaria agrarian reform Peruvian Communist Party-Shining Path ...

... in Peru’s congress as a candidate for the left-wing National Liberation Front and was elected leader of the Peruvian Peasant Confederation. In 1965 he accepted a series of international invitations, traveling to Cuba, the Soviet Union, and China. Those trips marked the pinnacle of his activist career...

... territorial confederation through alliances with Peruvian forces, especially in the south. Though recognized by the United States, Britain, and France, all of whom sought commercial entrée in the region, the confederation provoked intense hostility, both within Peru and Bolivia and from their neighbors...

... authorities. He gained growing numbers of admirers for the audacity of his anticolonial discourse. In 1998, the national congress of the Trade Union Confederation of Bolivian Peasant Workers ( csutcb ) was split internally between the coca-grower Evo Morales and the peasant leader Alejo Véliz. The Mallku...