Héctor Béjar

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Béjar and the second or maternal family name is Rivera.

Héctor Béjar Rivera (born 2 September 1935)^[1] is a Peruvian author, university professor. He served as the minister of foreign affairs of Peru from 29 July 2021 until 17 August 2021.

Héctor Béjar
Minister of Foreign Relations
In office 29 July 2021 – 17 August 2021
President	Pedro Castillo
Preceded by	Allan Wagner
Succeeded by	Óscar Maúrtua
Personal details
Born	Héctor Béjar Rivera (1935-09-02) 2 September 1935 (age 88) Huarochirí, Peru
Education	National University of San Marcos Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Occupation	Author, professor, artist

A historical figure in contemporary Peru, his participation in the National Liberation Army in the 1960s brought high media scrutiny,^[2][3] in addition to refusing to call Venezuela's current government under Nicolás Maduro a dictatorship.^[4]

Publications

Héctor Béjar is the author of several essays, articles and books. His essay about the liberation movement in the sixties Peru 1965: Notes of a Guerrilla Experience,^[5] won the Latin American Casa de las Americas Prize in 1969 and was published in multiple languages.^[6]

In 1976, he published The Revolution Trapped,^[7] concerning the revolutionary political process in Peru between 1968 and 1975. Béjar was the editor of CEDEP's social sciences journal Socialismo y Participacion since its appearance in 1977 until its final issue in 2009.^[8]

The campesino organization^[9] about indigenous communities and rural development is published in 1980 and Millennium Goals and Millennium Myths^[10] in 2010.

His University text book Social Justice, Social Policy ^[11] reached its 5th edition in 2013.^[12][13]

In 2012, he published Mito y Utopia: Relato Alternativo del origen Republicano del Peru^[14][15] ACHEBE Ediciones, 2012.^[16][17]

Béjar has been a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru since 2014 and at the same time, Bejar was also a columnist in several international magazines.^[18] and newspapers. He resides in Peru and is an active lecturer.^{[19][20][21][22]}

In 2015 he published 'Retorno a la Guerrilla' ("Retorno a la Guerrilla")^[23] a literary and historical recount of the Peruvian terrorist movement and a tribute to the young people that took part of that movement and lost their lives.

In 2019, he published Vieja crónica y mal gobierno: Historia del Perú para descontentos ("Old Chronicle and Bad Government: History of Peru for the Disgruntled"), a critical recount of Peruvian history. Bejar has appeared in two Peruvian films in 2019: 'La Revolucion y la Tierra', about the Government of Juan Velasco Alvarado and 'El viaje de Javier', a documentary about the life of the Peruvian Poet Javier Heraud who died fighting in the guerrilla movement led by Bejar.

In October 2021 he published 'Velasco', a book about the Government of Juan Velasco Alvarado from 1968–1975.

Political life

In 1962, together with Javier Heraud, Julio Dagnino, Alain Elias, Julio Chang among others, he founded the National Liberation Army which was part of the liberation movement of the sixties in Peru. He served five years in prison 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 on social and youth participation, supporting the national land reform. In the seventies, Béjar and former Velasco's collaborators formed CEDEP (Centre for Development and Participation) one of the first Peruvian Non-Governmental Organisations.

On 29 July 2021, President Pedro Castillo named Béjar the new minister of foreign affairs.^[24] He resigned on 17 August 2021 amid criticism for stating in a private webinar, one year before being Minister, that some elements of the Peruvian navy "had been responsible for terrorist acts" in the seventies. Bejar later publicly clarified [1] in the Peruvian media [2] that he did not accuse the Navy as an institution and that his words were manipulated for political purposes.

References

1. "Héctor Béjar Rivera, el Canciller izquierdista del Perú". 17 August 2021.
2. Rojas, Guillermo (2001). Años de terror y pólvora: el proyecto cubano en la Argentina, 1959-1970. p. 419.
3. "Héctor Béjar: "Lo más importante es que ha salido expulsado el grupito de especuladores y traficantes de capitales que rodeaba a Kucsynski"". 2018.
4. "Las mentiras del gobierno comunista de Castillo para defender al régimen de Maduro". La Gaceta de la Iberosfera (in Spanish). 4 August 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
5. Bejar, Hector (1970). Peru 1965: Notes of a Guerrilla Experience. London, New York: Monthly Review Press. pp. 144. ISBN 085345-121-4.
6. Petras, Jaime (Summer 1970). "Peru 1965: Notes on a guerrilla experience". Science and Society. 34 (2): 238–240. JSTOR 40401483.
7. Bejar, Hector (1976). La Revolucion en la Trampa. Lima – Peru: CEDEP Ediciones. p. 89.
8. . Archived from the original on 12 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
9. Bejar, Hector (1980). La Organizacion Campesina. CEDEP Ediciones. p. 85.
10. Bejar, Hector (2010). Mitos y Metas del Milenio (PDF). Lima-Peru: CEDEP Ediciones. p. 60. ISBN 978-612-45180-0-3.
11. Bejar, Hector (2011). Politica Social, Justicia Social (PDF) (Fourth ed.). Lima-Peru: ACHEBE Ediciones. p. 470. ISBN 978-612-00-0560-6.
12. Cardenas, Miguel Angel (14 April 2002). "Hector Bejar, Un alegato contra la pobreza". La Republica Daily Newspaper. Retrieved 19 August 2014.^{[permanent dead link]}
13. "Hector Bejar y una vision del Momento Historico Peruano". Marcona Protesta. 27 December 2006. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
14. Fernandez, Marco (6 January 2013). "Peru: Relato Alternativo". No. Anho VIII, Ed 03259. La Primera. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
15. Bejar, Hector (2012). Mito y Utopia: Relato alternativo del Origen Republicano del Peru (PDF). Lima – Peru: ACHEBE Ediciones. p. 304. ISBN 978-612-46290-0-6.
16. "Son necesarias las utopias, entrevista". Nosotrosperu.org. Sin Permiso. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
17. "Son necesarias las utopias". dialogosdosul.org. Revista Dialogos do Sul. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
18. "Agenda Global" (PDF). agendaglobal.redtercermundo.org.uy/category/agenda-global/. Red Tercer Mundo. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
19. "Seminar". Latinos in London. 7 February 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
20. La Crisis Economica Mundial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KI9H1BB8e0
21. "Conversatorio sobre Haya de la Torre, Mariategui y Velasco". lajuntaperu.org. Junta del Acuerdo de Cartagena. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
22. Soria, Juan. "Marx y los Trabajadores". despernado.blogspot.co.uk. Despernado. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
23. Bejar, Hector (2015). Retorno a la Guerrilla=2015. Lima – Peru: ACHEBE Ediciones. p. 408. ISBN 978-612-46290-1-3.
24. Mostrador, El (29 July 2021). "En Ministerio de RREE de Perú no operó el recambio generacional: nuevo canciller tiene 86 años". El Mostrador (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 July 2021.

External links

• hectorbejararte
• "Hector Bejar - Reseña de su libro "El Retorno a la Guerrilla"" – via YouTube.