This paper reconstructs the history of the Peruvian Communist Party-Red Flag in the city of Ayacucho, from the individual memories of its militants. Individual memories that come together in a sole emblematic memory of the party. Through these memories, this paper penetrates the history of the group and identifies its main characteristic. Thus, in Ayacucho, Red Flag was a group of friends, relatives and neighbors gathered around an ideology but, above all, around a caudillo or charismatic leader who acted as the father of a family with political children. This group had an ephemeral peasant and neighborhood base, which disappeared when the party took an ideological turn at the end of the 1970s, without being able to become an adequate channel of intermediation with the Peruvian State.

This paper reconstructs the history of the Peruvian Communist Party-Red Flag in the city of Ayacucho, from the individual memories of its militants. Individual memories that come together in a sole emblematic memory of the party. Through these memories, this paper penetrates the history of the group and identifies its main characteristic. Thus, in Ayacucho, Red Flag was a group of friends, relatives and neighbors gathered around an ideology but, above all, around a caudillo or charismatic leader who acted as the father of a family with political children. This group had an ephemeral peasant and neighborhood base, which disappeared when the party took an ideological turn at the end of the 1970s, without being able to become an adequate channel of intermediation with the Peruvian State.

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El presente trabajo intenta reflexionar sobre los problemas asociados a la utilización de la teoría de los Estudios Subalternos en la historiografía peruana. A partir de la evaluación de los principales postulados de dicha teoría más las conclusiones de las investigaciones de Florencia Mallon y Mark Thurner sobre el campesinado peruano del siglo XIX, se propone que los principales ejes de reflexión de los citados autores (la crítica al concepto englobante de nación y el papel protagónico de los campesinos) ya habían sido aludidos por la historiografía de los años setenta y ochenta; por ello este paradigma no se presenta como novedoso e interesante para los demás historiadores peruanos

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Presentation of the dossier on memory and political violence.

Presentation of the dossier on memory and political violence.

This paper studies the case of Francisco Buendía, a man of San Miguel, in the province of La Mar (Ayacucho), who was disappeared by Sendero Luminoso in 1984. From Stathis N. Kalyvas’ theoretical offers, it reconstructs the secret microdynamics of the case, which they connected with the armed internal conflict. To find these local dynamics, one resorts to the remembrances and silences of the Buendía’s relatives and to the information that reveal the notarial and judicial documents that the memory tries to hide. This paper shows that the local dynamics contain disputes that they have to see with the process of restructuring of the land that in the locality comes from the 19th century. The disputes finally developed intopolicies, causing the disappearance of Buendía.

This paper studies the case of Francisco Buendía, a man of San Miguel, in the province of La Mar (Ayacucho), who was disappeared by Sendero Luminoso in 1984. From Stathis N. Kalyvas’ theoretical offers, it reconstructs the secret microdynamics of the case, which they connected with the armed internal conflict. To find these local dynamics, one resorts to the remembrances and silences of the Buendía’s relatives and to the information that reveal the notarial and judicial documents that the memory tries to hide. This paper shows that the local dynamics contain disputes that they have to see with the process of restructuring of the land that in the locality comes from the 19th century. The disputes finally developed intopolicies, causing the disappearance of Buendía.

Presentation of the dossier on memory and political violence.

This paper studies the case of Francisco Buendía, a man of San Miguel, in the province of La Mar (Ayacucho), who was disappeared by Sendero Luminoso in 1984. From Stathis N. Kalyvas’ theoretical offers, it reconstructs the secret microdynamics of the case, which they connected with the armed internal conflict. To find these local dynamics, one resorts to the remembrances and silences of the Buendía’s relatives and to the information that reveal the notarial and judicial documents that the memory tries to hide. This paper shows that the local dynamics contain disputes that they have to see with the process of restructuring of the land that in the locality comes from the 19th century. The disputes finally developed intopolicies, causing the disappearance of Buendía.