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Uceda, Luis de la Puente (1926-1965)
Founder, principal theoretician, and leader of the Peruvian Movement of
the Revolutionart Left (MIR) in the 1960s. He started his political
career in APRA, but moved to the left and to Marxism, breaking with APRA
after the Cuban Revolution. He was an exponent of the theory of
guerrilla foci as catalysts for socialist revolution. In 1965 Uceda and
the MIR launched several guerrilla focos, which were promptly defeated
by the Peruvian Army, and Uceda killed in combat.
See Luis de la Puente Uceda Archive in Spanish.