Peru: A Country Study4th edition. Edited by Rex A. Hudson. Prepared by the Library of Congress, Federal Research Division. Research completed September 1992. Describes and analyzes the history, politics, sociology, economics, and national security systems of Peru. Includes maps, black and white photographs, bibliographies, a glossary, and an index. |
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... drug trafficking . This topic has been the dominant issue in United States - Peruvian bilateral relations because of Peru's status as the world's largest coca - leaf producer ( accounting for about 65 percent of total production ) . In ...
... drug trafficking . This topic has been the dominant issue in United States - Peruvian bilateral relations because of Peru's status as the world's largest coca - leaf producer ( accounting for about 65 percent of total production ) . In ...
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... drugs commission that seventy - four members of the armed forces were being tried for drug trafficking , but he de- nied that armed forces officers were paying bribes in order to serve in cocaine zones . On the economic front , trends ...
... drugs commission that seventy - four members of the armed forces were being tried for drug trafficking , but he de- nied that armed forces officers were paying bribes in order to serve in cocaine zones . On the economic front , trends ...
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... drug production and trafficking in the Upper Huallaga Valley were hampered by a number of negative factors . One was the insurgency ; both SL and MRTA forces began to oper- ate in the valley in 1985 and 1986. Attacks on police and ...
... drug production and trafficking in the Upper Huallaga Valley were hampered by a number of negative factors . One was the insurgency ; both SL and MRTA forces began to oper- ate in the valley in 1985 and 1986. Attacks on police and ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | xiii |
Introduction | xxix |
Historical Setting | 1 |
Copyright | |
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activities Agrarian agricultural Alan García Pérez American Andean APRA areas Arequipa armed forces army Ayacucho Bank base Belaúnde government Bolivia Cajamarca Callao Cambio 90 capital Central Chile Chimbote civilian coastal coca colonial Congress country's crisis Cusco deficit democratic domestic drug economic Ecuador elections elite exports foreign Fredemo Fujimori government García government Glossary groups growth guerrilla highlands Huallaga Valley important Inca increased industrial inflation institutions insurgency Inter-American Development Bank International investment kilometers labor land Latin America Lima Lima's major ment mestizo migrants military million minister native officers organized party Peasant percent period Perú Peru's Peruvian police political Popular population poverty president prison problems production provinces Quechua reform region result role rural sector self-coup Selva Shining Path Sierra SL's social society Spanish tion traditional United University urban Velasco workers