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Gustavo Gorriti

Lima, Peru

Gustavo Gorriti Is and award-winning Peruvian journalist based in Lima. He covered Peru's internal war, drug trafficking and corruption. He is the author, among other books, of The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru. He was Associate Director of Panama's La Prensa, Co-Director of Peru's La Republica and is currently a columnist for Caretas, Peru's leading newsmagazine. Close.

Gustavo Gorriti

Lima, Peru

Gustavo Gorriti Is and award-winning Peruvian journalist based in Lima. He covered Peru's internal war, drug trafficking and corruption. more »

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March 20, 2007 10:24 AM

More Like Petrocrats than Social-Democrats

On the surface, the Latin American Left seems to be surging with unprecedented vigor. Not even at the heyday of the internal guerrilla and counterinsurgency wars in Latin America -- from the 1960s to the 1980s -- were there so many self-designated leftist regimes as there are today.

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