south american style. peru is calling on its young to serve in the armed forces, but most are in the heeding the call. military service should be something you have a calling for. i don't believe i have that calling. >> reporter: plans are under way to reinstate the draft by may, for the first time in a decade. draft has been controversial enough without another aspect of the heated debate, paying to avoid serving. those called up and do not want to serve can pay a fine of about $715. the president, a former military officer, is strongly backing the plan. but critics say, this essentially ams to a draft of the poor. >> translator: different kinds of drafts work in other countries. in our country, if our reality the draft didn't work. we had many cases of desertion, deaths, abuses and problematic cases. and that's the reason the state decided our system should be closer to a voluntary system. >> reporter: near will a third of peru's poplation lives below