Weekly Report - 27 September 2012 (WR-12-38)

The democratic storming of the Bastille.” That is how Sinesio López Jiménez, an influential doctor in sociology at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) in Lima, described the day President Ollanta Humala took office in Peru on 28 July 2011. Fast forward just 14 months and López has joined a number of other prominent former allies of Humala in launching a new leftist political coalition. He appears to have concluded that, just as entering the Bastille was hugely symbolic but of little practical significance in revolutionary France, so Humala’s landmark victory for the Left, far from ushering in the ‘great transformation’ it promised, has amounted to little in practice.

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