Enrique Bernales Ballesteros
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Enrique Martín Bernales Ballesteros (6 November 1940, in Lima – 24 November 2018)[1] was a Peruvian scholar and politician. He was a member of the Peruvian Senate and the first UN Special Rapporteur on mercenaries.
Bernales Ballesteros served as Principal Professor of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).[2] He also served as the general secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (PSR).[2][3]
Bernales Ballesteros was the son of Luis E. Bernales (director of Colegio Guadalupe) and Laura Ballesteros.[2][4] Whilst his family was relatively wealthy, he grew up in the Barrios Altos.[4] He went to school at Colegio La Salle for his primary and secondary education. He studied law at PUCP and Political Science at the University of Grenoble.[2][5] During his three years as a student in Europe, he was molded in socialist thought.[4] He obtained a degree in political science and a doctorate in law.[2] In 1971 he was elected Dean of the Political Science faculty at PUCP. In 1975 he studied Methodology of Historical Investigation at universities in Paris, London and Madrid.[5]
Senator
He was elected as a senator, standing as a United Left (IU) candidate.[2] In the 1985 election he was elected with 111,808 votes.[6] At the time, he was called the 'Gentleman of the Peruvian Left'. He led the left-wing faction in parliament.[4]
