Peru in Theory pp 167-189 | Cite as

Foucault in the Land of the Incas: Sovereignty and Governmentality in Neoliberal Peru

  • Paulo Drinot
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Abstract

Following a disastrous first administration (1985–1990) and a decade or so lived in exile (to escape prosecution for corruption and human rights abuses), Alan García returned to power in July 2006. In this second term (2006–2011) García pursued an economic and social policy that is anathema to the policies historically associated with the party that he led, Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA). One of Latin America’s oldest “mass” parties, APRA’s founding principles included the nationalization of all agricultural property and industries, the “internationalization” of the Panama Canal, and the struggle against “yanqui” imperialism. Many observers agreed that García mark II, and the party that he led, had little in common with the party founded by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre.1 But in one respect, García was true to his origins. In public speeches and in a series of newspaper articles that play on Aesop’s fable of the dog in the manger (“el perro del hortelano”), García invoked the specter of communism to attack those who critiqued his policies. In an article published in late 2007, García traced the genealogy of current environmental critics of his policies to a communist past: “the old anticapitalist communist of the nineteenth century disguised himself as a protectionist in the twentieth century and changes his shirt again in the twenty first century to become an environmentalist.

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Gross Domestic Product Comparative International Development Liberal Democracy European Parliament Sovereign Power 
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