Hector Bejar is a Peruvian social scientist, a lawyer and a journalist. He has a PhD in Sociology and a Masters in Social policy and is currently Professor of Sociology at the National University of San Marcos (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru). He is author of ‘The Guerrillas of 1965 in Peru’, on one of the guerrilla movements of the sixties in Peru, which won the ‘Casa de las Americas’ Latin American award in 1969.