Rural Communities and the Making of Modern Peru (Review) | NACLA

In his new book, historian Javier Puente chronicles how rural communities in the Andean highlands played a key role in the making of state power in twentieth-century Peru.

Peru today seemingly confirms the persistent fractures and social divisions that have characterized the country even before it became an independent nation-state. During his 2021 presidential campaign, rural school teacher Pedro Castillo faced a host of accusations that spoke to a long-lasting coloniality and a recent past shaped by the traumatic memories of the Internal Armed Conflict (IAC, 1980-2000) and the Alberto Fujimori dictatorship. Some called him a “terruco” a derogatory and racially-charged accusation of terrorism, despite the fact that Castillo formed part of the Rondas…

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