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The Peru-Ecuador conflict in the framework of Latin American territorial disputes
The aim of this article is not so much to give a detailed account of the brief forty-day war – from January to March this year – between Peru and Ecuador over the Cordillera of the Condor territory, as to set this conflict in the context of international relations in Latin America, and in particular…
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The apparent contradictions in Peru’s fragile democracy
Recent developments in the political situation in Peru have taken foreign observers by surprise. The apparently paradoxical nature of the situation within the country makes Peru a ‘case’ that merits close study.The first surprise came in 1990, with the election as president of Alberto Fujimori, an engineer of Japanese origins who had previously had nothing…
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Hopes and fears in Cardoso’s Brazil
What will Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s first-round victory in the October 3 presidential elections mean for Brazil? Have things reached a turning-point in Brazil, a country where everything is on a gigantic scale distances, potential capacities, social inequalities and even passions? Or is this going to be just another of the country’s many disappointments? To find…
