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Week 11 – The Terror

From this week’s reading I selected The Interview of the Century, 1988 (excerpt) Whether the text is reliable in its claim of the mass’s power isn’t a given based off only the text itself. But it is also the case that Gonzalo’s call to violence did work for many “middle-class university students” and would continue […]

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Week Eleven: The Terror

This week’s focus is on Peru, specifically movements concerning peasant’s rights, freedom from repression, and institutional corruption in the 1980s. Focusing on the Prolonged People’s War of the Shining Path and administration of Alberto Fujimori, Peru experienced another wave of conflict later than other Latin American countries. Rather than the communist revolutions earlier in the […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with alberto fujimori, communism, Dirty War, land, land reform, Mexico, middle-class, peasants, Peru, repression, Shining Path

Week 11

This week we are back to yet another crisis in Latin America, this time, in Peru. I was surprised at first to hear about the presence of Guerrillas in Peru since for some reason I always thought they were specific to Columbia (maybe it’s because Netflix movies and documentaries on Guerrillas were usually in Columbia). … Continue reading Week 11

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Civil War, communism, Dirty War, guerrillas, latin america, Peru, Shining Path, Terror, violence, wars

Trauma of Peru

I have always been a strong proponent of great, positive social changes. I will gladly take any chance to help make the world a better place, especially for those who have often been considered the underdogs. Recently, however, it has become more apparent to me that this philosophy creates a naive belief about social reform… Continue reading Trauma of Peru →

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Trauma of Peru

I have always been a strong proponent of great, positive social changes. I will gladly take any chance to help make the world a better place, especially for those who have often been considered the underdogs. Recently, however, it has become more apparent to me that this philosophy creates a naive belief about social reform… Continue reading Trauma of Peru →

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Peru, Shining Path, The Terror

Week 11 the terror

This week’s lecture was based of Peru’s Civil War of 1980S. It discusses the failed land reform and the state’s abandonment.

Almost 70,000 people had died during Peru’s Civil war all due to internal conflict between the Peruvian Army and guerrilla fighters. Most of the people that had died were just ordinary civilians. This war was actually considered one of the most ‘bloody’ Peruvian wars in history since their colonization by Europe and is considered the second longest war in Latin America- Colombia’s armed conflict war is the first.

I found this week’s readings and lecture’s extremely thought-provoking. The first video I had looked at had been done by students explaining briefly what the war had been about: – the introduction of an Agrarian reform which was based on giving authority to the indigenous people. From 1968 general Juan Velasco ruled as president of the revolutionary arm. He served a form of justice to the poor that the indigenous people had been exposed to and reverse the practices of abandonment. He introduced a series of policies such an Agrarian reform policy which was based on giving rights to the less fortunate.  He gained a lot of support from the public because of years of being mistreated thus they had been desperate for a change.  I found it interesting how he was also referred to “Dr Shampoo” because of his ability to brainwash his listeners.

Another video I had watched was on Max Cameron’s look at Peru’s civil war: he explains the attempts of reform and change. He explains how this was a period of state building and political struggles for land and peasantry and abandonment.  He also says that it was one of the most difficult times in Peru where there was tons of instability. He explains the shining path: in which the land reform eliminated a critical component of the social structure.  He explained the ways in which Peru was structured with Gamonales who were land owner’s, and basically the rulers of Peru at the time, he also explained another important group of people who were the educated- this consisted of people like doctors and lawyers.

Taking this course has made me realize so much about Latin America that I previously had no idea of. I learned about the Sendero’s War- and how they were a military communist group with a stated goal of replacing the bourgeois democracy with a “new democracy” as well as to establish a complete dictatorship so that they could spur a world revolution.

My question for the class this week is: how was the “Shining path” able to exist in Peru for so long and could this civil war be considered a mini cold war?

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with agrarian, Civil War, Juan Velasco, max cameeron, Peru, peruvian, sendero, Shining Path, Terror

Week 11 the terror

This week’s lecture was based of Peru’s Civil War of 1980S. It discusses the failed land reform and the state’s abandonment.

Almost 70,000 people had died during Peru’s Civil war all due to internal conflict between the Peruvian Army and guerrilla fighters. Most of the people that had died were just ordinary civilians. This war was actually considered one of the most ‘bloody’ Peruvian wars in history since their colonization by Europe and is considered the second longest war in Latin America- Colombia’s armed conflict war is the first.

I found this week’s readings and lecture’s extremely thought-provoking. The first video I had looked at had been done by students explaining briefly what the war had been about: – the introduction of an Agrarian reform which was based on giving authority to the indigenous people. From 1968 general Juan Velasco ruled as president of the revolutionary arm. He served a form of justice to the poor that the indigenous people had been exposed to and reverse the practices of abandonment. He introduced a series of policies such an Agrarian reform policy which was based on giving rights to the less fortunate.  He gained a lot of support from the public because of years of being mistreated thus they had been desperate for a change.  I found it interesting how he was also referred to “Dr Shampoo” because of his ability to brainwash his listeners.

Another video I had watched was on Max Cameron’s look at Peru’s civil war: he explains the attempts of reform and change. He explains how this was a period of state building and political struggles for land and peasantry and abandonment.  He also says that it was one of the most difficult times in Peru where there was tons of instability. He explains the shining path: in which the land reform eliminated a critical component of the social structure.  He explained the ways in which Peru was structured with Gamonales who were land owner’s, and basically the rulers of Peru at the time, he also explained another important group of people who were the educated- this consisted of people like doctors and lawyers.

Taking this course has made me realize so much about Latin America that I previously had no idea of. I learned about the Sendero’s War- and how they were a military communist group with a stated goal of replacing the bourgeois democracy with a “new democracy” as well as to establish a complete dictatorship so that they could spur a world revolution.

My question for the class this week is: how was the “Shining path” able to exist in Peru for so long and could this civil war be considered a mini cold war?

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with agrarian, Civil War, Juan Velasco, max cameeron, Peru, peruvian, sendero, Shining Path, Terror

Week 11

In this week’s reading, we pass over the revolution in Cuba to what was going on the the Latin American region between the years of 1960-2000. This time was noted but the extreme violence in that region of the world by parties that were both leftists and right-wing radicals. In the first part of this […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Argentina, Chile, Cold War, latin america, Peru, Shining Path, USA

Week 11

After watching Cameron Maxwell’s conversation, I noticed many similarities between Peru in the 1960s and Guatemala a few decades prior. In both cases, coups were organized in order to proceed with land reforms, redistributing land to the peasantry. In Guatemala, land reforms were enacted by President Arbenz to redistribute the unused land that had been […]

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Week 11

In this week’s reading, we pass over the revolution in Cuba to what was going on the the Latin American region between the years of 1960-2000. This time was noted but the extreme violence in that region of the world by parties that were both leftists and right-wing radicals. In the first part of this […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Argentina, Chile, Cold War, latin america, Peru, Shining Path, USA

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