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Viva el Peru

Nov 13, 1973 | IMDB 8

72 min Watch Now

Documentary

Documentary about the Velasco regime and the material conditions in Peru prior to the coup d'état in 1968, as well as the Peruvian left wing

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Hugo Blanco, Rolando Breña

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