Peru: Can This Nation Save Itself?

Peru is a country that has undergone dramatic changes in the last twenty years, and some of these have taken a sad toll on both social and political institutions. Basically, the country was not prepared for such changes, and as a result the very fabric of Peruvian society has been weakened to an extent that can be considered dangerous, perhaps explosive. The reality produced by so much improvisation has an incoherent quality; it is both archaic and modern, capitalistic and communitarian (in n...