{"record":{"aliases":[],"appointmentIds":["peru-19e6536d0071dd"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":["ford-credentials"],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/jose-arce-larco-1b0aaff318/","countrySlug":"peru","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/jose-arce-larco-1b0aaff318/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["José Arce Larco was born in Salaverry in 1917 and graduated from Peru’s Naval School in December 1939 with his class’s sword of honour. Qualified in submarines and communications, he commanded vessels including the cruiser Almirante Grau and served in naval communications, intelligence, the Amazon river force, and the general staff. His professional education also included the Diplomatic Academy.","Before becoming ambassador, Arce had substantial Washington experience as naval attaché, naval commissioner, representative to the Inter-American Defense Board, and attaché to Peru’s OAS mission. In May 1974 he became navy minister and commander-general of the navy. He subsequently returned to Washington as ambassador, presenting credentials to Gerald Ford on 29 April 1975.","His later experience placed him on the receiving end of political repression. In May 1978 he was among thirteen Peruvian opponents of the military government forcibly transferred to Argentina and held at a military facility in Jujuy. A 2012 report preserved by Rosario’s Museo de la Memoria identifies him among the victims in the judicial investigation of that operation."],"id":"peru:jose arce larco","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-1b0aaff318a3a29d68f0.html","name":"José Arce Larco","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["navy-arce"],["navy-arce","ford-credentials"],["arce-detention"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-1b0aaff318a3a29d68f0.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"reviewed","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"c90bb6a02aca67aa","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1974","id":"navy-arce","locator":"PDF p. 93, printed p. 13","publisher":"Marina de Guerra del Perú","title":"El Monitor 1974: Vicealmirante José Arce Larco","type":"official-biography","url":"https://archivohistoricodemarina.mil.pe/repo/data/DOCUMENTOS/BIBLIOTECA/HEMEROTECA/4.%20Revista%20El%20Monitor/pdf/El%20Monitor%201974.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1975-04-29","id":"ford-credentials","locator":"White House catalog entries","publisher":"Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, reproduced on Wikimedia Commons","title":"Ford A4287 photographic contact sheet, 29 April 1975","type":"archive","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_A4287_NLGRF_photo_contact_sheet_(1975-04-29)(Gerald_Ford_Library).jpg"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"2012-02-03","id":"arce-detention","locator":"Report on Argentine judicial investigation","publisher":"Museo de la Memoria, Rosario; La Capital","title":"Piden la detención de ex dictador peruano","type":"contemporary-report","url":"https://www.museodelamemoria.gob.ar/page/noticias/id/481/title/Piden-la-detenci%C3%B3n-de-ex-dictador-peruano-"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"","id":"mission-7c6732d6b6a8cca83a5b","locator":"Indexed full text retrieved. Records Ramos as chargé ad interim on 28 February 1975 and Arce’s appointment on 19 March; Rivero as chargé ad interim on 26 December 1982 and Pastor’s appointment on 3 June 1983. These bound the interim-event notes; appointment is not treated as a verified handover day. Also confirms Berckemeyer’s ambassador role. Direct archive opens returned technical difficulties.","publisher":"","title":"Diplomatic Representation for the Republic of Peru","type":"Mission record","url":"https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/94363.htm"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"","id":"mission-67d8adec56bac71643b9","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"José Arce Larco — mission record (1975)","type":"Mission record","url":"https://www.peruembassy.site/past-ambassadors"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"","id":"mission-a6889df9ffa6dc5e34ab","locator":"Primary record describes the July 1975 expropriation and compensation dispute. Bilateral context during the posting.","publisher":"","title":"FRUS, 1969–1976, volume E–11 part 2, document 326","type":"Mission record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve11p2/d326"}],"topics":["naval diplomacy","political repression"]},"schemaVersion":1}