Juan Velasco Alvarado hardware. Relations between the United States and Peru were tense and even hostile, as soon as General Velasco and his junta took power. Just five days after Velasco seized power in 1968, the General began the nationalization of the Peruvian Economy with the expropriation and nationalization of the American International Petroleum Company (IPC) oil fields located in the northern Peruvian oil port and refinery of Talara, Piura, near the Peruvian border with Ecuador, Piura, being the region where Velasco was born. IPC was a subsidiary of Standard Oil, and although the claims over the IPC were ultimately resolved in negotiations
Juan Víctores de Velasco of Trujillo. He served as Bishop of Trujillo until his death on 10 Dec 1713. While bishop, he presided over the priestly ordination of Salvador Bermúdez y Becerra, Bishop of Concepción (1704). Juan Víctores de Velasco Juan Víctores de Velasco, O.S.B. (1644–1713) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Trujillo (1707–1713) and Bishop of Santa Marta (1694–1707). Juan Víctores de Velasco was born in Burgos, Spain in 1644 and ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Benedict. On 19 Jul 1694, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Bishop of Santa Marta.