Integración y desarrollo de la región fronteriza peruano ecuatoriana: entre el discurso y la realidad, una visión local

Abstract

In the first part of this article, we will analyze the texts of the peace agreement signed by Peru and Ecuador in 1998 to show how these documents, while they recognize the border, tend to make it crossable in order to remove an obstacle to the current process of globalization. In the second part, in an historical overview covering the last thirty-five years, we will underline fractures, differences and complementarities, natural and social, testifying to a regional complexity that the official documents do not recognize. In the third part, we will describe the situation that can be observed at the three new border's crossings looking at environment, production, ways of communication and exchanges, with the aim to show, at local scale, the impacts of the binational Development Plan of the Border Region. Finally, in the fourth part, on the basis of interviews with mayors and their electors, we will try to compare the official discourse with the reality that is felt and lived locally, in order to ask some questions about problems and posibilities of integration and regional development.

Keywords

• Peru
• Ecuador
• development
• peace agreements
• border
• integration