Breakdown in the Andes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3603387 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Shifter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 126 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20034072 |
| OpenAlex | W35129796 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
TWICE in recent months, the historically troubled but chronically ne glected nations ofthe crescent ofthe Andes-Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia-have made international headlines. First, in April, an angry mob set on the mayor of Ilave, a small city in Peru's impoverished high lands, and lynched him for corruption. Two months later, the same fate befell the mayor of a town in the Bolivian high plains: he was publicly lynched and his body set on fire, also for alleged misuse of public funds. With a drug-fueled armed conflict raging in Colombia and a political crisis plaguing oil-rich Venezuela, developments in the southern Andes fall under the radar of most U. S. policymakers and outside observers. The recent autos-da-fe, however, should serve as reminders of the region's tur bulent past and warnings of a possible return to violence and instability in the near future. Washington has responded to the prospect of renewed turbulence with a mix of indifference and fatalism: indifference because Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia are considered largely unimportant to U.S. interests; fatalism because all too many view them as hopeless anyway. And indeed, there is much to worry about in all three cases-bro ken nations, with imminent political crises and other significant prob lems in need of urgent attention. They are all still struggling to become coherent, well-functioning states. The social, ethnic, and geographic di vides that predate their founding continue to widen, and recent changes have created a profound and unsustainable gulf between the political sphere and the rest of society
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2012 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |