Levy for military and violence against youth in Peru; [Alistamento militar e violência contra a juventude no Peru]

Loayza J. · Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ninez y Juventud (2023) · DOI: 10.11600/rlcsnj.21.1.5504

Resumen

Compulsory military service in Peru has generated debates and controversies due to the violence with which it operates, both by forcing and mistreating and even torturing kidnapped youths. Only at the end of the 1990s would the cruelty with which it was operated be demonstrated, dismantling it in the year 2000. The article seeks to identify said violence through the channeling that would operate during the 1960s. Methodologically, a total of 28 interviews with men and women are applied between 60 and 83 years old. As a hypothesis, the use of discrimination and authoritarianism to degrade the most popular sectors of the country is proposed. Thus, the installed demeaning biopolitical strategies would persuade the population of the need for such levies, incurring in a legalized juvenile murder. © Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ninez y Juventud. All rights reserved.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos