Abstract
Review of ‘The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment under Military Rule’ by Aguirre, Carlos and Paulo Drinot.
Highlights
The bombing of General Juan Velasco Alvarado’s tomb in El Ángel cemetery by Shining Path militants in 1980 was an inauspicious beginning for the public memory of the Gobierno Revolucionario de las Fuerzas Armadas (GRFA, 1968–78)
Over 13 substantive chapters, The Peculiar Revolution demonstrates the radical nature of the military government’s rhetoric and brings into question whether many Leftist political parties and grassroots movements were right to shun it, believing that the regime was of a fascist, militaristic character
The volume highlights the institutional failings of the GRFA, including an overreliance on Velasco himself and an obsession with centralising and co-opting existing radical social movements in Peru
Summary
The bombing of General Juan Velasco Alvarado’s tomb in El Ángel cemetery by Shining Path militants in 1980 was an inauspicious beginning for the public memory of the Gobierno Revolucionario de las Fuerzas Armadas (GRFA, 1968–78). Abstract Review of ‘The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment under Military Rule’ by Aguirre, Carlos and Paulo Drinot.
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