AN INTERVIEW WITH HUGO BLANCO GALDOS

Abstract

This interview was conducted in Spanish in Cuzco, Peru, on 8 April 2010. It delivers a brief history of the 1958–63 struggle for agrarian reform in the Cuzco region of Peru, from the perspective of one of its leaders. Hugo Blanco is reticent on the specifics of military strategy and emphasizes instead the necessity of adopting principles of indigeneity if political, social and ecological progress is to be made.