I only hope that I will be able to recognize myself in its image. In response to both circumstances and design, the State has had to reduce its capacity to influence events affirmatively. The government is becoming passive and atrophied, cutting back on salaries, expenditures and initiative. Under this uncommon pressure, it is only natural that the State save its reserves for a last-ditch defense of national interests, resources and institutions, but this shrinkage has not been carried out rationally and with clear priorities. It violates a long chain of moral and ethical commitments.
Economic interests repeat the formula by trying to win privileges through access to government.
A special law or regulation in a businessman's favor was better than a patented process for making a profit. But the system is turning against those in power. The military-enforced reform of the 1970s was a scribe's game, a deluge of supreme decrees and regulations that attempted to rearrange the system. But to blame this tendency exclusively on the military is inaccurate. Many of these provisions were begun decades ago, and the controlist bureaucratic core of Peruvian government goes back to Colonial and Inca periods.