Peru. Violence Without End

This work reviews and analyzes the political violence that struck Peru primarily during the 1980s. During that decade, upon returning to democracy, more than 15,000 people were killed as a result of violence in Peru. The first 5,000 deaths occurred under the administration of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry and double that number during the government of President Alan García Pérez. This escalating violence cost Peru nearly its entire foreign debt, which amounts to almost 200,000 million dollars, two years' worth of its export value, but above all, irreplaceable human losses and the suspension of numerous infrastructure services that have not been rebuilt following successive attacks. Peruvian democracy has been accused of maintaining bureaucratic indifference, institutionalizing corruption, and privileging selfishness. (Excerpt from the presentation).