Background
Alfonso Barrantes Lingán was born on 30 November, 1928 in Cajamarca.
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After completing his primary and secondary education, he went to the National University of San Marcos, where he received his law degree.
Career
An Aprista Party activist since 1943, he led the student protest against Vice President Richard Nixon in May 1958. Suspended from the Aprista Party, Barrantes traveled to the People’s Republic of China to attend an international student congress later in 1958.
Barrantes joined the Peruvian Communist Party in 1960 but resigned from it in 1972. Thereafter, he considered himself an independent Marxist, follower of José Carlos Mariátegui’s ideology. He helped establish Unidad Democrática Popular in 1977, and when eight political organizations in 1980 formed the United Left (Izquierda Unida-IU), he became its president. Barrantes was elected first Marxist mayor of Lima with 33 percent of the votes in 1983 but was defeated as IU presidential candidate in 1985, when he placed second with 24 percent of the vote.
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