Juan Velasco Alvarado in the Presidential winter residence at Chaclacayo, countryside 20 kilometers east of Lima. General Velasco 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 made a last speech to the nation on the evening of August 29, 1975, announcing his decision not to resist the coup because "Peruvians cannot fight against each other". General Velasco kept a low profile in Peruvian politics until his death in 1977. Following his death, Velasco was carried on the shoulders of campesinos for six hours
Luis de Velasco y Velasco, 2nd Count of Salazar Luis de Velasco y Velasco, 2nd Count of Salazar Luis de Velasco y Velasco, 2nd Count of Salazar, 1st Marquess of Belvedere, (Valladolid, Spain, 1559 – Dunkirk, Spanish Netherlands (present-day France), 1625), was a Spanish military commander during the French Wars of Religion and the Eighty Years' War. His parents were Juan de Velasco, señor de Castrillo de Tejeriego and Beatriz de Mendoza, daughter of Luis de Velasco, marqués de Salinas. He married Anne de Hénin, daughter of Jacques de Hénin, Marquess of la Veere. He became the brother-in-law of Íñigo de Borja. They had two children: He is best