Edwar Enrique Escalante

All Publications by Edwar Enrique Escalante
  • Backgrounder posted April 8, 2011 by James Roberts, Edwar Enrique Escalante Peru’s Next President Should Continue Political and Free Market Reforms

    Abstract: The United States and Peru have a strong and positive relationship that is helping to strengthen Peru’s democratic institutions and speed its integration into the globalized economy. This April, Peruvian voters will choose a new president, who will hopefully continue efforts to curb corruption, strengthen property rights, and effectively…

  • WebMemo posted June 9, 2009 by James Roberts, Edwar Enrique Escalante Narco-Terrorism in Peru: The Return of Shining Path

    In the 1960s, leftist philosophy professor Abimael Guzman started a Maoist guerilla group at the University of San Cristobal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, Peru. Guzman named this organization in honor of the most celebrated phrase ever turned by an early Peruvian Communist and journalist, Jose Carlos Mariategui, who wrote that "Marxism-Leninism will open the shining…

  • WebMemo posted June 9, 2009 by James Roberts, Edwar Enrique Escalante Narco-Terrorismo en Perú: El Retorno de Sendero Luminoso

    En la década de 1960, un profesor izquierdista de filosofía iniciaría un grupo guerrillero maoísta en la Universidad de San Cristóbal de Huamanga en Ayacucho, Perú. Guzmán bautizo la organización en honor de una de las frases más celebres jamás dichas por un joven comunista y periodista peruano, José Carlos Mariategui, quien escribió: "el Marxismo-Leninismo abrirá el…

  • Backgrounder posted August 18, 2008 by James Roberts, Edwar Enrique Escalante Fighting for Freedom in Rural Peru: "ALBA Houses" Threaten Democracy

    In Peru, hard-won economic and political freedom is in jeopardy from foreign interests bankrolled by Venezuela. Although Venezuela's immense oil wealth should belong to all Venezuelans, their far left, neo-populist, and authoritarian President Hugo Chavez is siphoning off much of it to enhance his own political power and spread his toxic "21st Century Bolivarian Socialism" throughout…