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An Assessment of Peruvian Problems and Progress
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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Today, Peru faces three essential problems: 1) the lack of geographical integration; 2) racial diversity and the failure of restratification among the social classes; and finally, 3) the rising tension generated by population growth and shifts. Within the context of these three problems may be evaluated the role of two “designs” for action — first, the Alliance for Progress and, second, the program of Peru's new government, which, while cooperating with the Alliance's program, is striving for independent, nationalistic action and finds itself confronting an exploding, revolutionary situation created by the masses of Indians unassimilated into the political culture.
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1 There have been recent attempts to build roads into the highlands and the montaña but such development has been slow and sorely inadequate. Peru's existing railway system was built for mineral extraction; gauges are not uniform and there are few connecting lines. The rivers, both to the west and east of the Andes, are impossible to navigate because of rapid descent.
2 In 1960, a five-year plan, known as Perú-Via, was initiated; the plan includes the construction of a hydroelectric plant, the linking of the Central and Southern Railways, and a colonization scheme in the lower eastern Andean valley.
3 Owens, R. J., Peru (London: Oxford University Press, for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1963), p. 8.Google Scholar
4 For details, see Inter-American Development Bank, Institutional Reforms and Social Development Trends in Latin America (Washington, D. C., 1963), pp. 261-72.Google Scholar
5 Unless the U. S. Congress limits such loans; certain Congressmen threatened such action after the November, 1963, annulment by Argentina of multi-million dollar contracts with U. S. oil firms.
6 This is the view of William P. Glade, Jr., in a recent essay; see Glade, William P. Jr., and Anderson, Charles W., The Political Economy of Mexico (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1963).Google Scholar