“For success to culminate efforts, a discipline that is not necessarily imposed but conscious, is necessary,” says a text written by Peredo, along with a photograph of the revolutionary combatant with a backpack on his back.
The fragment of the message signed by Commander Inti Peredo adds that “whoever acquires this awareness (…) must renounce everything that a man or woman normally aspires to be alienated from this oppressive society.”
Born on April 30, 1937, he was influenced by his father, a professor and director of the Catholic newspaper El Imparcial, and from a young age he joined a small group of young founders of the Communist Party in the department of El Beni.
He held various positions and became a member of the Central Committee of that organization.
Together with his brother Roberto (Coco), Jorge Vázquez Viaña and Rodolfo Saldaña, he provided important help in the organization of the People’s Guerrilla Army, headed by journalist Jorge Ricardo Massetti (Comandante Segundo), which would operate in the Argentine province of Salta.
After the failure of this project, in 1966 he was one of the founders of the National Liberation Army under the orders of Ernesto Che Guevara, who appointed him as one of the political commissioners of that force.
After the defeat in the combat of the Quebrada del Yuro, he played an important role in the departure of the small group of combatants from the surrounded area and their arrival to the border with Chile.
He returned to Bolivia in May 1969 and two months later he published the message We are back in the Mountain, which unleashed an absolute persecution of the repressive dictatorial bodies directed by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States.
Due to an accusation, on September 9, 1969, he was surrounded in a house in La Paz by 150 soldiers and after an hour of unequal combat he was seriously wounded in the leg and arm by a grenade, which facilitated his capture.
In prison he was cruelly tortured without being able to extract any confession from him, for which they decided to kill him.
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