Background
Eudocio Ravines was bom in Cajamarca on 9 May 1897.
Eudocio Ravines was bom in Cajamarca on 9 May 1897.
Finished a high school in his hometown.
He moved to Lima to work for a commercial firm. There he joined the studuent-labor forces led by Victor Raul Haya de la Torre opposed to the autocratic rule of President Augusto B. Leguia. As a result, he was deported to Santiago de Chile in 1925, but soon the Chilean police sent him by train to Buenos Aires. There he joined the Aprista Committee, which in 1926 assigned him to collaborate with Haya de la Torre, then exiled in Europe. He became a leader of the Paris Aprista Committee and with Haya attended the International Anti-Imperialist Congress in Brussels in 1927.
The following year Ravines began working surreptitiously against the Apristas under orders of the Third International, as he had secretly joined the Communist Party. After receiving training in the Soviet Union, he returned to Lima in 1930 and became secretary general of the Peruvian Socialist Party, founded by José Carlos Maridtegui two years earlier. Soon after Maridtegui’s death. Ravines changed the name of the party to the Peruvian Communist Party. Following Comintern instructions, he launched a campaign against the nationalist and personal interpretation of Marxism that Maridtegui had passed on to his followers. Ravines was captured by the police in October 1933 but managed to escape from prison, and traveled to the Soviet Union.
The Comintern sent Ravines to Chile to organize the Popular Front, and when the Civil War broke out in Spain, he was dispatched there as a trusted aparatchik. The Stalin-Hitler Pact began to weaken his faith in communism, and by the end of the war, he was expelled from the Chilean Communist Party.
In 1945 he returned to Lima, where he first joined the Peruvian Socialist Party, and then organized his own Authentic Socialist Party. In his later years, he was closely associated with the conservative newspaper La Prensa and its owner, Pedro Beltran. The Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces deported him to Mexico, where a car ran over and killed him.