Peru and the paradoxes of Calimero

Abstract

On January 20 is celebrated the anniversary of Peru's defeat at the Battle of Yungay, which marked the end of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, and on 3 October was the 40th anniversary of the coup of General Juan Velasco Alvarado, overthrew President Belaunde to establish the Peruvian Revolution, a military dictatorship. Peru today is not only the result of the action of those who led the political and social events of the day during the hectic period Republican. The history of the Republic of Peru during the rest of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was an accumulation of mistakes and contradictions, colored by the injustices, the internal violence, coups, warlordism, the fickleness of political leaders and military deportations, almost chronic loss of the entire territory, by sales by irresponsible rulers or because of armed conflicts, etc.., that ultimately diminished the national sovereignty, created a breeding ground for dissatisfaction, discontent and social conflict.