POS 316416 Latin American Politics 11202006

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics - 11/20/2006

• Have a Great Thanksgiving Break!
• Paper Assignment 3.
• Due next week 11/27.
• Description of annotated bibliography from
  Cornell University.
• Lecture/Discussion.
• Set up for video.
• Peru 2006.
• Video La Boca Del Lobo (Wolfs Den). (156
  5minute break).
• Discuss film in light of readings.
• Discuss readings.
• Civil-Military Intelligence Relations and Human
  Rights.
• Legacy of period of insurgency and
  counterinsurgency in Cold War and Post-Cold War
  context is critical for understanding political
  dynamics in most Latin American states.
• Dialectics of Insurgency/Counterinsurgency are
  grounded in national political struggles.
• Role of external powers, esp. United States and
  Soviet and allied states.

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• Fujimori.
• BBC Series of Article re decline and fall of
  Fujimori.
• President Toledo makes second request for
  extradition 10/2004.
• Embezzlement of 15million and murder.
• Japan will not extradite nationals.
• Reuters Article 10/15/2004.

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• Peru November 2004.
• Sendero Luminoso.
• MIPT (Terrorism Knowledge Base) Latin America
  Peru Map.
• Leader of Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) Abimael
  Guzman makes first public appearance in 12 years.
  
• SL/SP is Maoist guerrilla organization portrayed
  in film yet never directly appears.
• Guzman (69 years old) being retried for
  terrorism.
• Convicted in 1992 by secret military
  counterterrorist court.
• Treason and terrorism convictions thrown out by
  Peru Supreme Court.
• Guzman had aimed to seize power by 1996.
• Denies charge of terrorism legitimate popular
  revolution.
• SL/SP responsible for more than half of 69,000
  fatalities (military/intelligence and MRTA other
  major culprits).
• Reuters Article November 5, 2004. Washington Post
  Nov. 6, 2004.
• Revolutionary Communist Party (US) supports SL.

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• Amnesty Report 8/26/2004 re CVR Report.
• Period of conflict 1980-2000. the most intense,
  extensive and prolonged episode of violence in
  the entire history of the Republic.
• Disappeared 23,969.
• Shining Path was the main perpetrator of crimes
  and human rights violations 54 fatalities.
• Comités de Autodefensa, Self-Defence
  Committees/paramilitaries were responsible for
  over 37 of deaths.
• Patterns of deaths, disappearances and injuries.
• Social exclusion and discrimination.
• 40 victims from Ayacucho Department.
• Rural (79), peasant (56).
• Men 80 of fatalities.
• Women victims of massacres/sexual violence.
• Map of Peru.

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• Movie La Boca Del Lobo. 1988. Peruvian
  production (IMDB - NYT)
• Peruvian Military Unit deployed to village in
  Ayacucho Province.
• Village suspected of being sympathetic to
  Sendero.
• Discussion post-movie.
• Militarist Machismo.
• Race/Ethnicity and misperception.
• Gender and Counterinsurgency.
• Parallels with US Cinema (Deer Hunter, Platoon)?
• Lessons?
• Had to destroy Chuspi in order to save it?
• Urban (Lima) Andean Rural Split.
• Military as path of upward mobility. Class
  allegiances?
• Obstacles to democratization?
• Prosecute or amnesty?
• Target for enforcement, combat soldiers or
  architects of counterinsurgency projects?
• Existential responsibility of individual soldiers
  to resist orders to abuse human rights?
• Reparations?

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• Next Week (11/27/2006).
• Paper assignment 3 due.
• Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
• Come to class having done assigned readings.
• No other specific announcements.