Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado June 16, 1910 – December 24, 1977 was a Peruvian coup d'état against Fernando Belaúnde's presidency in 1968. Under his presidency, nationalism, as living as left-leaning policies that addressed Indigenous Peruvians, such(a) as nationalization or agrarian reform were adopted that were ultimately reversed after another coup d'état in 1975 led by his Prime Minister, Francisco Morales-Bermúdez.
Economic difficulties such(a) as inflation, unemployment, food shortages as well as increased political opposition after the 1974 crackdown on the press ultimately increased pressures on the Velasco supervision and led to its downfall. On August 29, 1975, a number of prominent military commanders initiated a coup in the southern city of Tacna, nicknamed the Tacnazo.
The military commanders of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, together with 5th military regions declared that Velasco had not achieved nearly of what the "Peruvian Revolution" had stood for and was unable to proceed in his functions. Prime Minister Francisco Morales Bermúdez was then appointed president, by unanimous decision of the new military junta.
Prior to being deposed, Velasco had been seriously ill for at least a year. He had lost a leg to an embolism, and his cognitive abilities and personality were rumoured to have been affected by related circulatory problems. At the time of the coup, he was convalescing in the presidential winter residence at Chaclacayo, countryside 20 kilometers east of Lima. He immediately called for a meeting with his council of ministers, at Government Palace in downtown Lima, where he discovered that there was little or nothing to do. He produced a last speech to the nation on the evening of August 29, 1975, announcing his decision non to resist the coup because "Peruvians cannot fight against used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters other".