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La relacion, dificil y compleja, entre los politicos y los militares en Peru, donde el presidente electo Fujimori busco resolver una crisis politica con un golpe de estado en abril de 1992, constituye el enfoque central del presente trabajo. El autor muestra la intervencion creciente de los militares peruanos en la politica, destacando como la situacion se complica con la guerra interna, porque esta supone, entre otros, un motivo de legitimidad para el papel especial del ejercito. (LA Hmb.)

As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. Based on empirical evidence, interviews with local people and historical contextualization, the authors attempt to shed light on the fault-lines which have appeared in Latin American society

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- About the Series -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Beyond Enigma: An Agenda for Interpreting Shining Path and Peru, 1980-1995 -- PART 1. WITHIN AND AGAINST HISTORY: CONCEPTUALIZING ROOTS -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 From Race to Class: Insurgent Intellectuals de provincia in Peru, 1910-1970 -- 2 On Poor Relations and the Nouveau Riche: Shining Path and the Radical Peruvian Left -- 3 Chronicle of a Path Foretold? Velasco's Revolution, Vanguardia Revolucionaria, and "Shining Omens" in the Indigenous Communities of Andahuaylas -- PART II. THE CONQUEST THAT FAILED: THE WAR FOR THE CENTER-SOUTH -- Introduction to Part II -- 4 Harvesting Storms: Peasant Rondas and the Defeat of Sendero Luminoso in Ayacucho -- 5 Family, Culture, and "Revolution": Everyday Life with Sendero Luminoso -- 6 The War for the Central Sierra -- 7 Villagers at Arms: War and Counterrevolution in the Central-South Andes -- PART III. OBLITERATING THIRD PATHS: THE BATTLES OF LIMA AND PUNO -- Introduction to Part III -- 8 Shining Path and the "Decisive Battle" in Lima's Barriadas: The Case of Villa El Salvador -- 9 Apogee and Crisis of a "Third Path": Mariateguismo, "People's War," and Counterinsurgency in Puno, I987-I994 -- PART IV. WOMEN AS CITIZEN-SUBJECTS: EXPLORING THE GENDERED WAR -- Introduction to Part IV -- 10 Women in War: Impact and Responses -- PART V. POLITICAL RULE, POLITICAL CULTURE: THE IRONIC LEGACIES OF WAR -- Introduction to Part V -- 11 Civil-Military Relations in Peru, 1980-1996: How to Control and Coopt the Military (and the consequences of doing so) -- 12 Alberto Fujimori: "The Man Peru Needed?" -- 13 Sendero Luminoso and Human Rights: A Perverse Logic that Captured the Country -- 14 Human Rights and Social Referents: The Construction of New Sensibilities -- CONCLUSION Shining and Other Paths: The Origins, Dynamics, and Legacies of War, 1980-1995 -- Abbreviations and Organizations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors