As Dawson attempts to find words apt for the period of time dubbed the \u201cdirty war\u201d, I can\u2019t help but feel how relevant this is in current governments and cultures across the world. The labels like \u201cdirty war\u201d and \u201cwar on terror\u201d are \u201cunconventional forms of warfare where the enemy is within, and rarely in uniform\u201d. These descriptions by Dawson seem chillingly similar to how ISIS militants would act as immigrants and refugees to gain access to countries accepting them because their homelands are ravaged by war; These militants would most definitely fit the label of being \u201crarely in uniform\u201d. In addition to that, Dawson\u2019s statement about the problem with paranoia, \u201cwhen you cannot identify the enemy by the uniform they wear, you see the enemy everywhere\u201d, seems even more pertinent now because of the rhetoric within the battle for the presidency of the United States the past couple of months. Even though president-elect Trump and his regime aren\u2019t anything close to the dirty warriors, their paranoia seems similar. Trump\u2019s proposed plan to ban all Muslims and have them on a registry is very close to paranoia. Not that president-elect Trump or any other American shouldn\u2019t be worried about their safety, but, the positive boons that comes with immigration is often overlooked amid safety concerns.<\/p>\n
For me, the rise of Fujimori has more to do with the debate about, \u201cthe end justifying the means\u201d than anything else. In this unique case I don\u2019t think the end justified the means in which Fujimori went about solving the problem. By no means was the situation in Peru easy or as \u201cblack and white\u201d as some people might think, but killing civilians to bring justice to the Shining Path made the government just as bad as the very thing they were trying to eradicate. The abandonment of human rights and treatment of the victim\u2019s families like Carolina Oyague is abhorrent and not a good representation of what they were fighting for.<\/p>\n
Another interesting aspect about this week\u2019s chapter was that university students made up a lot of the leftist movements in Latin America. Dawson points out that \u201cmost senderistas were current or former university students, drawn to the bloody path plotted by Guzman\u201d. Dawson explains that it had to do with \u201cyouthful idealism and a sense that Peru was facing an existential economic and political crisis\u201d, which turned into anger when the \u201cgovernment subjected them to torture and long imprisonment\u201d. Why would the government subject these university students to torture and imprisonment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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