Sobre algunos problemas de la participación en la revolución peruana

Authors

  • Carlos Delgado

Abstract

As a radically atypical phenomenon, the revolution that Peru is experiencing today cannot be interpreted orthodoxly; on the contrary, their study, necessarily, has to be based on interpretations of an atypical nature as well. The atypicality of the Peruvian Revolution is established from its own point of initiation. It did not emerge from any of the Peruvian political parties, nor from any organized "popular" movement. On the contrary, it arose from a military institution that had traditionally played the role of guarantor of the established order. Such fact was a radical departure from the Peruvian and Latin American political tradition. Answering the fundamental question of how such a decisive change was possible in the Peruvian Armed Forces implies revealing much of the very nature of the Peruvian revolutionary process and makes it possible to identify some of its main characteristics, both positive and negative.

Keywords:

Peru, Peruvian Revolution, Armed Forces, Military Regimes, Latin America

Author Biography

Carlos Delgado

Es director superior de BINAMOS (Sistema de Apoyo a la Movilización Social) y profesor de ciencias sociales en la Universidad "Cayetano Heredia" de Lima. Autor de numerosos artículos, ha publicado Problemas sociales en el Perú contemporáneo y El proceso revolucionario peruano : testimonio de lucha.