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The Peruvian Military Government, Labor Mobilization, and the Political Strength of the Left

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Evelyne Huber Stephens
Evelyne Huber Stephens*
Affiliation:
College of the Holy Cross
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The Peruvian military government of 1968-80 defied the expectations and categorizations derived from academic work on the character and performance of its counterparts, past and present, in other Latin American countries.1 A key anomaly is the fact that labor and the left were not eclipsed, but instead emerged strengthened by the period of military rule in their mobilizing capacity and electoral presence.2 The purpose of this article is to explain the legacy of the military government for labor and the left by elucidating the processes that led to their strengthening, with particular emphasis on the policies of the Velasco regime.

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Research Article
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , 1983 , pp. 57 - 93
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 by the University of Texas Press

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The author would like to thank Peter Evans for suggestions, Cynthia McClintock and Martin Scurrah for help in obtaining materials, and John D. Stephens and the anonymous LARR reviewers for comments on earlier drafts. Original field research in 1975-76 was carried out under a grant from the Social Science Research Council.

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