Antonio Díaz Martínez

Antonio Díaz Martínez (1933 to 1986) was a Peruvian agronomist, anthropologist and Maoist revolutionary, born in Chota in the region of Cajamarca. He graduated from the National Agrarian University of La Molina in 1957, researched for the Inter-American Development Service, and from 1960 worked for the Institute for Agrarian Reform and Colonization on planned development projects near the Apurimac River. From 1964 he taught on the agronomy faculty of the University of Huamanga in Ayacucho. His 1969 study Ayacucho: Hambre y Esperanza argued that the domination of the latifundio and the entrapment of the peasantry survived the 1964 agrarian reform, and he later wrote on agrarian change in China. He became a senior member of the Shining Path, was arrested in December 1983, and was killed in the Lurigancho prison massacre of June 1986.