The Militarization of the Peruvian Countryside https://nacla.org/node/6482

Since taking office in 2006, Peruvian President Alan Garcia has initiated an aggressive economic development strategy focused on opening up Peru’s natural resources to international extraction corporations, often in the face of large-scale protests and organized campaigns.The administration has responded with efforts designed to criminalize the opposition’s actions via newly enacted legislation,

while simultaneously beefing up the country’s private security sector and authorizing the wider deployment of Peru’s military forces. The government has coupled these efforts with an aggressive propaganda campaign that links protestors to armed groups as a justification for increasing the national security presence in regions that are attractive to foreign investors.

comment-this is same president garcia wich washington praises and pushed to ratify  a fta(fre trade agreement with even against the overwhleming number of human rigths org's,ngo;'s social movements wich protest such a move considering garcia is running a neoliberal campaign thats displacing hundreds of thousands,not to mention past massacres against indigenous communities forcing them off their lands  in order to reward foreign corporations these victims lands wich by law are protected under constitution...