The Armed Forces were an important component of the modern states that arose in Latin America at the end of the 19th century. At the same time, the Obligatory essential part of the prevailing European models, the Obligatory Service contained cultural and social permises that were those of our countries. In this manner, a lot of imagination should have been employed to implement it without distorting the objectives of the referred models. So, a mechanism conceived to organize the citizens in the defense of the country, besides being sean as limited in this functions, should have fulfilled other tasks that formed part of the project.

The Armed Forces were an important component of the modern states that arose in Latin America at the end of the 19th century. At the same time, the Obligatory essential part of the prevailing European models, the Obligatory Service contained cultural and social permises that were those of our countries. In this manner, a lot of imagination should have been employed to implement it without distorting the objectives of the referred models. So, a mechanism conceived to organize the citizens in the defense of the country, besides being sean as limited in this functions, should have fulfilled other tasks that formed part of the project.

Seventeen years after armed subversion began in Peru, apparently there is very little left to say about the very nature of the event. It is enough to browse the existing bibliography, including the most recent work, written by Peter A. Stern, where the number of pages used speaks for itself of the concern that this topic has deserved by analysts and researchers.

Desde mediados del 2002, nuestra comunidad política fue reintroduciendo en el debate sus preocupaciones sobre una denominada “clase media”. Es cierto que alguna tibia referencia a ella se hizo durante las jornadas antireeleccionistas de fin de siglo, seguramente impulsada por la presencia entusiasta de jóvenes universitarios y algunos sectores identificados como tales que participaban en los entonces vigorosos y voluntariosos aunque desarticulados movimientos regionales.Desde mediados del 2002, nuestra comunidad política fue reintroduciendo en el debate sus preocupaciones sobre una denominada “clase media”. Es cierto que alguna tibia referencia a ella se hizo durante las jornadas antireeleccionistas de fin de siglo, seguramente impulsada por la presencia entusiasta de jóvenes universitarios y algunos sectores identificados como tales que participaban en los entonces vigorosos...