Peru

Flag of Peru

**Peru** Officially the **Republic of Peru** is a large Andean country in the continent of South America. Peru is a Unitary Presidential Republic, however due to recent events Peru is a military dictatorship with the current dictator being Zenón Noriega Agūro. Peru has recently fought its neighbor Ecuador over disputed territory relating to Ecuador's large Eastern territory, in witch Peru faced a humiliating defeat. Peru was formed in 1821 after the Spanish-American wars of Independence in witch most of Latin America gained independence. Peru did not fight in the Second Weltkrieg for similar reasons to the rest of Latin America, Distance from the frontlines. Peru due to its authoritarian government aligns with the "Andean Pact" and thus it aligns with the Reichspakt globally.

## History

Peru in 1936 was being divided between totalist and National Populistic ideals, however the balance between these two had prevented the other from gaining supreme authority over the state. However the start of the Black Monday Crisis would end up causing this balance to begin to shift as Peru would end up being dominated by Left wing parties as the popularity of Socialism would end up skyrocketing in Peru as well as the rest of the world. Peru for the next 4 years would be dominated by the Social Democratic faction, however this would only make the reactionary and National Populistic factions chafe underneath the socialist yolk. The Outbreak of the Second Weltkrieg would cause another crash in the economy and a sudden swing in popularity to the right wing faction within the Peruvian government. This would cause in 1941 the military to switch sides and go against the Social Democratic government and with the support of around three quarters of the population, Peru would fall to a military coup. However the Military instead of relinquishing power to the right wing government, would in fact coup the republic again creating a true military dictatorship instead of a military dominated republic like Paraguay was at the start of the year. Peru would soon begin supporting the Monarchist Faction in Brazil in the Brazilian Civil War as its main beneficiary as Peru began to negotiate with its southern neighbors for an alliance and economic pacts. This would succeed with Bolivia and Paraguay, but Argentina wished for Peru to build up its forces more before it would trade with it. However this was barley enough to stop Peru's economy from declining however it would not be able to grow and is still not able to grow. Peru would end up for the next few years intervening in South American conflicts hoping to create more military dictatorships however this would end up failing in most regards. However the National Populist elements within the nation were slowly rising in popularity especially after the failure of the Integralist regime within Brazil to win the war. This would cause a lot of integralist and monarchist supporters to flee to Peru specifically and Peru would end up having its own integralist faction win over the support of the military. This would end up causing wars plans to be made for an operation long in the making of the Peruvian government, War against Ecuador. In 1946 on a small relatively clear day, Peruvian forces would advance across the border with Ecuador and would attempt to encircle large portions of the Ecuadorian army. However foreign support from other nations would quickly allow Ecuador to turn the tide against the Peruvian government. Soon Ecuador was able to push back to the Peruvian border and would have kept going to liberate the country if it weren't for the threat of intervention by Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. With the threat of a pan continental war, negotiations would begin in Lima where a status quo antebellum was declared with an agreement to set the border back to where it was. This would end up causing a sharp decline in the popularity of the Integralist government and has caused a wave of instability to hit Peru. This has caused worries within the government with Socialism never having truly gone away, that Peru may fall victim to a socialist revolution should one or more of its neighbors fall to similar conflicts.

## Military

The Peruvian military has recently undergone a massive humiliation and reorganization as the Peruvian government wishes to avoid such a humiliating event from happening further. The Peruvian Army is the largest and most powerful of the armed branches of the military government, and given a few years it should be able to defeat Columbia or Venezuela. Peru also has a small navy mostly for defensive operations, however recently it has been tailored to try and blockade Ecuador should conflict start up again. Peru has a good sized air force witch is capable of larger scale operations than the rest of the "Andean Pact", should this continue this build up it may take over leadership of the pact and replace Argentina as the dominant military power on the continent.