If not conceived as an object lesson for post-911 America, Pamela Yates' documentary about the Republic of Peru's two-decade degeneration into a police state via a war on civil terrorism that claimed 70,000 lives and eroded the survivors' civil liberties nonetheless demands to be read as one. Peru's troubles began long before professor of philosophy Manuel Ruben Abimael Guzman Reynoso began fomenting revolution in Ayacucho, a small city in the central Andes. Peru's democratic government effectively served only half its population, the descendents of Spaniards concentrated in cosmopolitan Lima; the country's indigenous Indians, segregated in the mountains and jungles,...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
94 mins