Juan Velasco Alvarado of the Velasco administration's economic policies is still debated today. As the Peruvian military government ran deeper into debt, it was forced to devalue the currency and run inflationary policies. This however, was in part due to the 1970s Energy Crisis, which also affected Peru and made it impossible for the Velasco administration to fund some of its most ambitious reforms. In foreign policy, in contrast with his 1970s Latin American contemporaries, which were mostly right-wing military dictatorships, he pursued a partnership with the Soviet bloc, tightening relations with Cuba and Fidel Castro and undertaking major purchases of Soviet military
Daphne Zileri she was raising her children, Dougall took photographs of her children and studied master photographers like Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Dorothea Lange to develop her skill. Zileri began working as the first female photographer at "Caretas", the political magazine owned by her husband's family. In 1968, when the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado took control of the country, Enrique was exiled to Spain and Zileri took what jobs she could find to support the family. She worked as a substitute teacher and a translator, taking bridal photographs on the side. She also assisted in multiple functions