By Frederica Barclay
Bagua shocked the nation because of its tragic and needless death toll that resulted from the disproportionate and poor handling of a military operation, for which no one has assumed responsibility, and because it showed that the government of Alan García had attempted to surreptitiously bring down the constitutional regime pertaining to the Amazonian Indigenous Peoples’ rights to favor big private interests. After the events, the outrage of the citizens was proportional to the magnitude of the shock. The reaction of various bodies in charge of overseeing compliance with international human rights treaties, of which Peru is a signatory, was also immediate, and the country was subject to very serious criticism.
It was hoped that the government would mend its ways. That seemed to be the case when four roundtables were created with the purpose of implementing the proposals that arose therefrom. Nevertheless, a year and a half later, it has become evident that it attempted to apply the strategy of “The Leopard”: “if we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change” (2).
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