Volume 17, Number 10 · December 16, 1971
Peru: The Peculiar "Revolution"
By E.J. Hobsbawm
While the Marxist government of Chile is cautious about what it has so far achieved, if not about its intentions, the military government of Peru has no doubt about what it is doing. It is making the Peruvian Revolution. The Peruvian government will not settle for less and resents any suggestion that it is just reformist. When on a recent visit I asked a group of officers from the COAP—the government's brain trust—how much further they hoped to push the process of change, the answer was: until every aspect of the nation has been fundamentally transformed.
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