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Jesús Tovar

Professor and researcher at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. President of the Mexican Association of Political Science (AMECIP) and Coordinator of the Network of Studies on Quality of Democracy in Latin America. PhD from FLACSO-Mexico.

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The Booty State: From power gridlock to state collapse in Peru

Today, the Peruvian State is a prey held captive by the executive and legislative powers, by the old and new parties, left, center and right, by the politicians in office. In the meantime, the citizenry watches stupefied, passive, immobile, without knowing what to do.

A New Constitution and A Second Republic for Peru

A political constitution is not an end in itself, it is an instrument for a higher goal: the peaceful cohesion of a society. The current Peruvian political constitution no longer fulfills that purpose. This legal instrument does not achieve the social cohesion necessary to preserve peace and compliance with the law.