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HECTOR BEJAR

Hector Bejar is a Peruvian writer, artist and social scientist. Political Life

In his youth, Héctor Béjar was Press Secretary and member of the Political Commission of the Peruvian Communist Youth and one of the founders of the Party’s newspaper Unidad (Unity) in 1956. Breaking from the Communist party in 1959, he has remained a left-wing socialist ever since.

In 1962, he founded the National Liberation Army which was part of the guerrilla movement of the sixties in Peru. He served five years in prison for sedition before being liberated by a general amnesty granted by General Juan Velasco Alvarado, who took power in 1968 and asked Béjar to work on reforming land policies with the government.

Béjar collaborated with Velasco's Government being part of SINAMOS, a Government institution for social participation. From SINAMOS, he worked with youth, rural, cooperative and popular movements, supporting the national land reform.

In the seventies, Béjar and former members of SINAMOS formed CEDEP (Centre for Development and Participation) one of the first Peruvian Non Governmental Organisations. Béjar was the editor of CEDEP's social sciences journal Socialismo y Participacion since its appearance in 1976 until its final issue in 2001. Publications

Héctor Béjar is author of several essays, articles and books. His essay about the liberation movement in the sixties Peru 1965: Notes of a Guerrilla Experience [1], won the Casa de las Americas Latin American award in 1969 and was translated to eight languages. In 1976, he published The Revolution Trapped[2], concerning the revolutionary political process in Peru between 1968 and 1975. The campesino organization[3] about indigenous communities and rural development is published in 1980 and Millennium Goals and Millennium Myths[4] in 2010. His University text book Social Justice, Social Policy [5] has reached its 5th edition in 2013. In 2012, he published Mito y Utopia: Relato Alternativo del origen Republicano del Peru[6] ACHEBE Ediciones, 2012. Currently

Béjar has a PhD in Sociology and a Masters in Social policy and is currently a professor at San Marcos University and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

Bejar, Hector (1970). Peru 1965: Notes of a Guerrilla Experience. London, New York: Monthly Review Press. p. 144. ISBN 85345-121-4 Check |isbn= value (help). Bejar, Hector (1976). La Revolucion en la Trampa. Lima - Peru: CEDEP Ediciones. p. 89. Bejar, Hector (1980). La Organizacion Campesina. CEDEP Ediciones. p. 85. Bejar, Hector (2010). Mitos y Metas del Milenio. Lima-Peru: CEDEP Ediciones. p. 60. ISBN 978-612-45180-0-3. Bejar, Hector (2011). Politica Social, Justicia Social (Fourth ed.). Lima-Peru: ACHEBE Ediciones. p. 470. ISBN 978-612-00-0560-6. Bejar, Hector (2012). Mito y Utopia: Relato alternativo del Origen Republicano del Peru. Lima - Peru: ACHEBE Ediciones. p. 304. ISBN 978-612-46290-0-6.