Low-Intensity Conflict: Old Threats in a New World by Edwin G Corr

Author:Edwin G Corr [Corr, Edwin G]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9780429722981
Google: 35SpDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-15T10:56:37+00:00

Notes

1. Various sources have been keeping the grisly score. Among the most authoritative are DESCO (Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo), Resumen Semanal, through November 1990, and DESCO, Boletín Informativo, since January 1991. DESCO information is drawn primarily from newspaper accounts. Another is the Peruvian Senate's Special Commission on Political Violence (Comisión Especial del Senado sobre Causes de la Violencia y Alternativas de Pacificación Nacional), headed by Sen. Enrique Bernales and often called the Bernales Commission. See Violencia y Pacificación (Lima: DESCO y Comisión Andina de Juristas, February 1989). Updates appear regularly. The main sources for the Bernales Commission are the Peruvian government's Ministry of Defense and Ministry of the Interior. Their estimates of casualties are consistently 10 percent to 15 percent higher than DESCO's. In English, Sandra Woy Hazelton has been keeping track annually since 1984 in "Peru," Yearbook of International Communist Affairs (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, yearly); Cynthia McClintock also provides much information about Sendero as well as the larger political and economic context of Peru in her annual country analysis (since 1985) in Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Record (New York: Holmes and Meier, yearly). A recent summary presentation and analysis is my own chapter on "National Security," in Rex Hudson, ed., Peru: A Country Study, Library of Congress Federal Research Division (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1992), chap. 5.

2. Many are represented in the Spanish compilation of previously published articles, Heraclio Bonilla, ed., Crisis, violencia, y conflicto étnico en los Andes (Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura, 1992). Another edited collection, in most cases of studies not published before, is my own Shining Path of Peru (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992).

3. For a comprehensive treatment of Shining Path from its beginnings through the first phase of the armed struggle (1980-1982), see Gustavo Gorriti, Sendero; Historia de la Guerra Milenaria en el Perú, vol. I (Lima: Editorial Apoyo, 1990).

4. The university's distinctive mission is eloquently presented by its first rector (president) Fernando Romero Pintado, in "New Design for an Old University," Américas, December 1961.

5.I arrived at about the same time as a Peace Corps volunteer (PCV) invited to teach English and social sciences, which I did with two PCV colleagues between September 1962 and November 1963. I recount my experiences in "Expulsion from a Peruvian University," in Robert E. Textor, ed., Cultural Frontiers of the Peace Corps (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1965), pp. 243-270, not learning until years later that the "unseen hand" behind the removal of the Peace Corps from the university was Guzmán himself, his first significant political victory.

6. For an insightful account in English of Guzmán's concerns and activities before, during, and after his University of Huamanga experience, see Gustavo Gorriti, "The War of the Philosopher-King," New Republic, 18 June 1990, pp. 15-22.

7. A comprehensive account of Shining Path's development at the university and in Ayacucho during the 1970s, much of it from direct observation, is Carlos Iván Degregori, Ayacucho 1969-1979: El surgimiento de Sendero Luminoso (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1990). This important book

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