Juan Velasco Alvarado
President of Peru
Died when: 67 years 191 days (810 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado (June 16, 1910 – December 24, 1977) was a Peruvian general who served as the 58th President of Peru after a successful coup d'état against Fernando Belaúnde's presidency in 1968.
Under his presidency, nationalism, as well as left-leaning policies that addressed Indigenous Peruvians, such as nationalization or agrarian reform were adopted.
These policies were reversed after another coup d'état in 1975 led by his Prime Minister, Francisco Morales-Bermúdez.Velasco had a confrontational foreign policy towards the United States, as he pushed for renegotiation of treaties and criticized what he perceived as a pernicious dependence of Latin American states on the United States.
While he strengthened Peruvian relations with the Soviet Union, Velasco was firmly anti-communist.His foreign policy has been described as "third way."
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