The Peruvian Peasant Leagues: A Brief History
Important sectors of Peru's rural population rebelled against the "popular war" utilizing a form of social organization that arrived to the Peruvian countryside during the second half of the 1970s. The peasant leagues became an important social movement that contributed in a decisive...
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/memoysociedad/article/view/7730 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-019&d=article7730oai |
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| Sumario: | Important sectors of Peru's rural population rebelled against the "popular war" utilizing a form of social organization that arrived to the Peruvian countryside during the second half of the 1970s. The peasant leagues became an important social movement that contributed in a decisive manner to the defeat of the Shining Path insurgency. This article describes how the peasant leagues organized, spread-out and grew in Peru; another objective of this article is to show their participation in the victory of the Peruvian State over the primary insurgent group in the country. |
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