Modernizing plans in the Andean area of the Department of Arica and the paradigm of development in the 1960s

Abstract

The article shows the initial planning role of the Junta de Adelanto de Arica [JAA] with a view to the implementation of a capitalist modernization project aimed at the development of rural Andean communities in the Arica border region from the second half of the century XX. A chronology is established regarding the development initiatives and their progressive deterioration, which culminated in the execution of sectorial investments that disintegrated the original planning intention. It is suggested that this project succumbed to idiosyncratic regional aspects typical of the Andean communities in their interaction with development structures and the erratic implementation of these strategies.