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Juan Velasco Alvarado
Juan Velasco Alvarado A man of humble origins, the Peruvian army officer General Juan Velasco Alvarado (1910-1977) seized power in 1968 and launched a sweeping but ill-fated reform program. Juan Velasco Alvarado was born at Piura, on Peru's north coast, on June 16, 1910. Among 11 children of... Read more |
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Pedro de Alvarado
Pedro de Alvarado , 1486-1541, Spanish conquistador. He went to Hispaniola (1510), sailed in the expedition (1518) of Juan de Grijalva, and was the chief lieutenant of Hernán Cortés in the conquest of Mexico. He commanded at Tenochtitlán in the absence of Cortés, and... Read more |
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Venezuela - Chavez Background.
...starting with Bolivar's followers and including Juan Velasco Alvarado and Omar Torrijos. The second son of Hugo de los...Ayacucho. There, they were greeted by leftist Juan Velasco Alvarado, president of Peru in 1968-75. ... |
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VENEZUELA - Chavez Background.(Company overview)
...starting with Bolivar's followers and including Juan Velasco Alvarado and Omar Torrijos. The second son of Hugo de los...There, they were personally greeted by leftist Juan Velasco Alvarado, president of Peru in 1968-75. ... |
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PERU-AGRICULTURE: A REQUIEM FOR RURAL UTOPIA
...Government of theArmed Forces. The last remnants of Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado's radicalagrarian reforms -- 17 large sugar cooperatives...of owners with only 5.5per cent of the land. "Velasco Alvarado's agrarian reform was a people's party. ... |
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CINEMA-PERU: NEW MOVIE VERSION OF VARGAS LLOSA NOVEL
...Mario Vargas Llosain 1971 during the regime of Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado. Vargas Llosa himself co-directed the original...a political, social andeconomic revolution. The Velasco Alvarado dictatorship ruled Peru from 1968-1975during which... |
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Urban Poverty, Political Participation, and the State: Lima, 1970-1990
...to October 1968, when General Juan Velasco Alvarado seized presidential power in a...s economy and society. General Velasco was deposed in a bloodless internal...including neighborhoods in Comas, San Juan de Miraflores, Cercado de Lima... |
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Between Reform and Revolution: Political Struggles in the Peruvian Andes,...
...radical agrarian reform, decreed in 1969 by General Juan Velasco Alvarado, had on the district of Huanoquite, sixty-five...inhabitants of Huanoquite sought to take advantage of Velasco's agrarian reform. A district dominated by haciendas... |
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Upstart Shantytown of 1960s Now Is Major Peruvian City; Upbeat Constituency...
...leaning military government of the time, general Juan Velasco Alvarado, offered them as an alternative a vast stretch of...desert that had been used for military maneuvers. Velasco coined the term pueblos jovenes or "young towns... |
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South America's new-style military coup.(OPINION)
...Oscar R. Benavides, Luis M. Sanchez Cerro, and Juan Velasco Alvarado - held the same post before returning to Lima to strike...economic policy. Brazil's Getulio Vargas, Argentina's Juan Peron, and Argentina's Augusto Pinochet all came... |
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FILM-PERU: LIFE OF MARXIST IDEOLOGUE MAKES IT TO BIG SCREEN
...former official under the leftist regime of Gen.Juan Velasco Alvarado, and director of 10 feature length andnumerous short...articles on theeditor's desk signed with the pseudonym "Juan Croniqueur" untilfinally revealing his true identity... |
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RIGHTS-URUGUAY: UNCOVERING THE TRUTH, THREE DECADES LATER.
...Cariboni MONTEVIDEO, Oct. 5, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Juan Mar a Bordaberry attained a certain notoriety outside...dictatorship along the lines of that of leftist Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975), who carried out broad land reform... |
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