THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF FUJIMORI´S COUP D´ETAT

* Este noviembre del 2008 se publicó un artículo académico relacionado a mi tesis de licenciatura en Politikon, el journal semestral de la International Association of Political Science Students (IAPSS). Espero que puedan revisar este y los demás, ya que están muy buenos. Saludos.

PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF DEMOCRACY IN PERU

Carlos Eduardo Pérez Crespo
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
cperez.crespo@gmail.com

Peru has a long history of democracy’s breakdowns where the construction of political discourse has been very important to legitimize authoritarian measures. Therefore, this article analyzes Alberto Fujimori’s discourse in the last Peruvian coup d’état in 1992. Owing to the fact that authoritarian discourse could become legitimate once again in a future political or economic crisis in Peru, this research concludes that the Peruvian government should consider the real importance of the issue of political order in contemporary politics.

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