Héctor Béjar Rivera (born 2 September 1935) is a Peruvian author, university professor. He served as the minister of foreign affairs of Peru from 29 July 2021 until 17 August 2021. A historical figure in contemporary Peru, his participation in the National Liberation Army in the 1960s brought high media scrutiny, in addition to refusing to call Venezuela's current government under Nicolás Maduro a dictatorship. Publications Héctor Béjar is the author of several essays, articles and books. His essay about the liberation movement in the sixties Peru 1965: Notes of a Guerrilla Experience, won the Latin American Casa de las Americas Prize in 1969 and was published in multiple languages. In 1976, he published The Revolution Trapped, concerning the revolutionary political process in Peru between 1968 and 1975. Béjar was the editor of CEDEP's social sciences journal Socialismo y Participacion since its appearance in 1977 until its final issue in 2009. The campesino organization about indigenous communities and rural development is published in 1980 and Millennium Goals and Millennium Myths in 2010. His University text book Social Justice, Social Policy reached its 5th edition in 2013. In 2012, he published Mito y Utopia: Relato Alternativo del origen Republicano del Peru ACHEBE Ediciones, 2012. Béjar has been a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru since 2014 and at the same time, Bejar was also a columnist in several international magazines. and newspapers. He resides in Peru and is an active lecturer. In 2015 he published 'Retorno a la Guerrilla' ("Retorno a la Guerrilla") a literary and historical recount of the Peruvian terrorist movement and a tribute to the young people that took part of that movement and lost their lives. In 2019, he published Vieja crónica y mal gobierno: Historia del Perú para descontentos ("Old Chronicle and Bad Government: History of Peru for the Disgruntled"), a critical recount of Peruvian history. Bejar has appeared in two Peruvian films in 2019: 'La Revolucion y la Tierra', about the Government of Juan Velasco Alvarado and 'El viaje de Javier', a documentary about the life of the Peruvian Poet Javier Heraud who died fighting in the guerrilla movement led by Bejar. In October 2021 he published 'Velasco', a book about the Government of Juan Velasco Alvarado from 1968–1975. Political life In 1962, together with Javier Heraud, Julio Dagnino, Alain Elias, Julio Chang among others, he founded the National Liberation Army which was