Martín Tanaka

Martín Tanaka is senior researcher at the Institute of Peruvian Studies and an associate professor at the Catholic University of Peru, where he directs the political-science undergraduate program. He is a weekly columnist for the newspaper La República and coeditor (with Francine Jácome) of Challenges to Democratic Governance: Political and Institutional Reforms and Social Movements in the Andean Region (in Spanish). This essay was translated from Spanish by Brent Kallmer.