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History of South America
Economy
- Local NGOs in Peru Devise an Alternative Anti-Poverty Program
- By Jo-Marie Burt, in NACLA Report on the Americas, May/June, 1996. Plans to recover from the social consequences of Fujimori's imposition of structural adjustment.
- The Two Faces of Fujimori's Rural Policy
- By Nelson Manrique, in NACLA Report on the Americas, July/August, 1996. The consequences of Fujimori's neoliberal restructuring of the agricultural sector after 1992.
- Peru's new conquistadors: Pizarro's toxic trail
- By Pratap Chatterjee, in Covert Action Quarterly, 25 March, 1997. History of Peru's modern economy in terms of foreign economic exploitation.
Labor
- Rail workers on hunger strike
- Workers World, 13 April, 1995. Brief report of state rail worker strike that began on March 14 to protest police repression and wage freeze.
Politics
Documents for MRTA occupation of Japanese embassy
- The Peruvian Narco-State
- From El Dario Internacional, November, 1994.
- In Peru, Power grows out of the barrel of a gun; El Poder Nace del Fusil, cruda realidad
- New Flag/ La Nueva Bandera. 3 January, 1995. A defense and description of the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP).
- Peruvian dictator reelected, evidence of fraud abounds
- By Jose Palacios, in People's Weekly World, 15 April, 1995. Alberto Fujimori soundly defeats Javier Perez de Cuellar, but election felt to be fraudulent.
- The war's aftermath: Bad news for the Alto Maranon
- From Peru Oil News, 23 July 1995. Oil development by YPF likely to do greater damage to the Aguaruna and Huambisa than the Peru-Ecuador border dispute.
- Deciphering The Enigmas of Alberto Fujimori
- By Guillermo Rochabrun, in NACLA Report on the Americas, July/August, 1996. Also appended is the article, The De Facto Powers behind Fujimori's Regime by G. Rochabrun.
- Shining Path in the 21st Century: Actors in Search of a New Script
- By Carlos Reyna Izaguirre, in NACLA Report on the Americas, July/August, 1996. In 1980, Abimael Guzman, leader of the Communist Party of Peru, the Shining Path, opened a period of costly people's war that ended in 1993 with a negotiated peace that split the Shining Path and raised the question of its future role.
Society
- Peru's Blacks Increasingly Discontent With Decorative Role
- By Calvin Sims, in New York Times, 17 August, 1996.
- "The other half of the sky." Women in the revolution led by the Communist Party of Peru
- An interview from Committee Sol Peru, 7 August, 1997. Main focus of this article is on party activities.
Culture and telecommunications
- Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo
- By George Lambie. 22 February, 1995.
- Shining Path wages flame war
- By Simon Strong, Finanial Times, London, May 13, 1996. A web page gives the Communist Party of Peru an international presence, but also proves devisive.
