Saturday, July 17, 2021

The Four Cs

All politics is messy and complicated. Nowhere is this trope more true than in Latin America.

As described by a couple of interested onlookers for Foreign Policy, modern politics in Peru is positively Byzantine. In slang terms, it is a zoo, has been a zoo for some years, and looks even worse going forward. 

If the fate of that Andean nation interests you, as it does me, this article will be discouraging. It exemplifies the region’s tendency to default into the four Cs of corruption, cronyism, and class conflict.