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SHIFTER, Michael
Breakdown in the Andes
2004
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
aljandro toledo, fujimori, terrorism, narcotraffiking, ecuador, bolivia, english, ingles, cvr
Resumen:
| Unlike Bolivia and Ecuador, Peru has not seen the emergence of |
| indigenous political movements and parties, even though its indigenous |
| population is, in absolute terms, the largest in South America. And |
| given how discredited politics has become in Peru, it is unlikely that |
| indigenous groups will transform into a viable political force in the near |
| future. Such a mobilization, however, would be salutary for Peru’s |
| democratization. The indigenous population has long suªered exclusion |
| and profound injustice. In its analysis of human rights abuses |
| and political violence from 1980 to 2000, Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation |
| Commission found that three-quarters of the 69,000 victims were |
| of indigenous descent, most of them from Peru’s poorest regions. It |
| attributed more than half of the killings to the virulent Maoist Shining |
| Path insurgency, which took advantage of pent-up rage and an |
| ineªective state to unleash its violence. |
Shining Path no longer poses a strategic
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