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Worker Housing
The Junta Pro-Desocupados (Unemployment Council, founded 1931) in Lima, Peru believed that adequate housing for workers could help stop the rise of militancy.  A new worker housing project initiated... [Item of the Day]
Shining Path
On 17 May 1980, the eve of Peru's presidential election, groups of armed youths attacked polling places in the southern Andean department of Ayacucho. This marked the beginning of the Shining Path's... [Item of the Day]
Peruvian Pariahs
Anarchist ideas and publications circulated widely in Peru by the first decade of the 20th century. Manuel González Prada, an aristocrat and poet, and a handful of radical immigrant intellectuals... [Item of the Day]