Violence and Colonial Mentality in Peru

This book contains a set of essays and interviews produced over the last twenty years and coincides with many of the CVR's conclusions written subsequently. It also specifies some differences with the CVR, such as the central theme of the report, which should not be approached from the point of view of "us" as if "the others" were those we call indigenous or Indians — who are the majority, almost all, of those who have been victims and actors of the structural violence that still prevails in Peru in the third millennium. Based on such considerations, the author of the prologue notes, the usefulness of the book and the need to read it are obvious. Removed from the superficial and the epidermis, it visualizes that at the root of every violent phenomenon lies the lack of justice, primarily in the Andean world, which has been attacked in a thousand and one ways throughout the centuries. Peru is a country where the traits and characteristics of structural violence persist to this day. A country where we find various types of violence: political, economic, cultural, drug trafficking, etc.