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SANTOS, Fabio Luis Barbosa dos. Perversion and trauma: impasses of Peruvian contemporary politics. Latinoamérica [online]. 2016, n.62, pp.195-226. ISSN 2448-6914.

The purpose of this text is to situate the impasses of contemporary Peruvian politics under the perspective of recent history. In the 1980's, the conjunction between economic crisis under García's government (1985-1990) and the violence undertaken by Sendero Luminoso has contributed to the division and decline of the left, leaving the stage set for Fujimori ́s regime (1990-2000). The following degradation of politics has resulted in a situation where no president has elected his sucessor, but at the same time, a national political alternative from a popular perspective has not emerged yet, which points to an impasse that makes explicit both the rejection to neoliberalism and the difficulties to overcome it.

Palavras-chave : Peru; Izquierda Unida; Sendero Luminoso; APRA; Fujimori.