Security & Strategic Review - February 2005
Southern Andean states are seen entering a dangerous new ‘cycle of instability’
The demands for regional autonomy that have spread over the past month from Bolivia to Ecuador and Peru, combined with the other manifestations of institutional breakdown in those countries, would have triggered military coups had they emerged in the 1960s or early 1970s. Some draw comfort from the fact that this does not happen nowadays, but others warn that the southern Andean countries have fallen into the grip of a cycle of instability of uncertain outcome - not excluding civil conflict.
The demands for regional autonomy that have spread over the past month from Bolivia to Ecuador and Peru, combined with the other manifestations of institutional breakdown in those countries, would have triggered military coups had they emerged in the 1960s or early 1970s. Some draw comfort from the fact that this does not happen nowadays, but others warn that the southern Andean countries have fallen into the grip of a cycle of instability of uncertain outcome - not excluding civil conflict.
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