What is happening with the illegal dredging in Madre de Dios is a new lesson about the nature of power in Peru. The mobilization of illegal miners and their supporters in the streets has stopped for all practical purposes the good intentions of the original operating last week. Mercury will keep flowing.
The fact coincides with the appearance of a cable from the U.S. Embassy in 2006 said that Peru is falsified export licenses for illegal timber (one of the sensitive issues of FTA). Since nothing dramatic happened in the field since then, we must assume that the practice has continued ever since.
drug The area also has encouraging news lately. Few incidents, few tragedies, which speaks of a sort of peace in an area of \u200b\u200bintense conflict. But it also means that the production of coca and drug remains at the top. The UN warns that we will soon be No. 1 also in this activity.
superviolenta The crime scene in Trujillo has left the headlines, but it is known has not been demobilized, and gangs of extortionists are still there, just removed from the headlines. This is another war that nobody seems to be taking the trouble to win, or perhaps even fight.
These are just four examples of a continuing situation of crime. All the present government has inherited, and everyone is going to leave a legacy nearly intact next government. Surely you can submit lists of efforts and progress, but there are pockets of crime, equal or even stronger.
The message of these and other cases is similar to the Peruvian government lacks the capacity to impose its laws on the entire territory and the entire population. Which produces a cost-benefit calculation for which law enforcement may end up creating more problems than it solves.
We, therefore, a society and an economy that is moving on two tracks. The problem is that, not so in the long run, each of these areas needs to impose its rules on the other to develop. What is perceived nationally as a truce on the ground clearly exists as a confrontation between the state and illegal production.
There is a hypothesis that these social challenges State economic and resist because they are articulated to the world of formality and their interests. Something like the dark side of economic growth, while the side indispensable to the survival of many. One type of argument that can take away.
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