Peru's Garcia Says Will Block Leftist Candidates

[magbana]

As BoRev.net says about the following article:

"Peruvian President won't let Peru get saddled with a leftist leader after he's gone, even if all the stupid voters want one.

Peru's Garcia says will block leftist candidates
2009-03-24 20:39:38 GMT (Reuters)


By Teresa Cespedes

LIMA, March 24 (Reuters) - President Alan Garcia promised foreign investors on Tuesday that Peru would enjoy long-term political stability and said he would try to block leftist candidates from winning the 2011 election.

Garcia's comments, made in an unusually candid speech to executives from Latin America, apparently aimed to alleviate fears in the business community about the candidacy of ultranationalist Ollanta Humala, an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Humala nearly won the 2006 election and his plan then to unravel years of free market reforms sent financial markets reeling.

"The president can't pick his successor, but he can prevent the next president from being somebody he doesn't want," Garcia said.

Humala, who as an army general mounted a short-lived insurrection in 2000, has long said the government depicts him as a boogeyman to hurt his political chances.

While Garcia said he will oppose leftists, he has yet to say which pro-market candidate he will support. Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, and Luis Castaneda, the mayor of Lima, are tied as poll leaders, slightly ahead of Humala.

Garcia, a leftist in his youth who has moved to the right, said foreign investments would be safe in Peru, which suffered years of devastating political turmoil during the Shining Path insurgency of the 1980s and 1990s.

Peru has had an economic surge from a commodities boom that has benefited one of the world's top minerals producers, and from credit expansion until the recent slow-down.

"I guarantee that every cent you bring will be protected by the political stability that Peru will have in the next 10 years. This is my long-term contribution for when after the crisis passes," Garcia said.

Fallout from the global economic crisis would hit Peru hardest in May and June, Garcia said while talking up an economic stimulus plan designed to keep growth at 5 percent this year.

Private economists forecast 2009 growth of around 1 percent, which would mark a sharp slowdown after more than seven years of swift expansion. (Writing by Terry Wade; Editing by Vicki Allen) "
http://www.forexpros.com/news/forex-news/peru%27s-garcia-says-will-block-leftist-candidates-38918

[Peace Patriot]

1. Garcia is a corrupt "free tradist" with about a 30% approval rating; buddy of Bush Jr.

Hard to figure how he intends to "prevent the next president from being somebody he doesn't want," by legal means.

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The article is heavily tilted toward corpo/fascist views. For instance, the use of the words "unravel" and "free market reforms" in this sentence:

"Humala nearly won the 2006 election and his plan then to unravel years of free market reforms sent financial markets reeling."

In truth, "free market reforms" unravel third world economies, as has happened throughout the last decade. To "unravel" those dreadful, anti-democratic, global corporate predator policies is to put the country back together again. This is what has happened in the many countries with leftist governments: stability. Social justice, fairness, national sovereignty (vs. global corporate predator rule), good environmental and labor policy, and good (non-corrupt, leftist) government, is the program that creates "political stability"--not radical "free market" looting. Peru is very unstable--lots of civil unrest, labor protests, peasant farmer protests--compared to countries with leftist governments--Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay--and center-left (allied with the leftists) governments--Brazil, Chile.

Of all of them, Bolivia is the only one that has had serious trouble--largely instigated by the U.S. (Bushwhack) embassy, which funded/organized white separatist riots last September, in a coup plot to split off Bolivia's gas/oil-rich eastern provinces into a fascist mini-state in control of the resources, and destroy Bolivia's first indigenous president. (Bolivia is a largely indigenous country.) What happened next tells us a lot about the stability of South American's leftist countries. First of all, Morales refrained from violent repression, until the U.S.-supported fascist rioters machine-gunned some 30 unarmed peasant farmers, then he sent in the military to restore order. Then he threw out the U.S. ambassador (and the DEA). Then Chile called a meeting of UNASUR, the new South American common market, and got a unanimous vote in support of Morales, and sent delegations to Bolivia to investigate the murders and to get peace talks started with the saner elements among the fascist secessionists. Also, Argentina (leftist) and Brazil (center-left) made it very clear that they would not recognize or trade with a secessionist state in Bolivia. (They are Bolivia's chief gas customers.) Result: A peaceful national vote on the new Bolivian Constitution early this year.

Every other U.S./local fascist effort to create chaos and destabilize countries with leftist governments has been foiled, because the leftist governments are extremely popular--with approval ratings in the 60% to 70% bracket*, and are very democratic (maximum citizen participation) and progressive, and because of the solidarity among their leaders. Peru is an isolated dinosaur of the "free trade" past--like the Bushwhack funded narco-state, Colombia. Their day is over. And Humala will likely win Peru's next election, if the election is transparent and above-board. I don't know what preparations are being made for that election--for instance, whether or not international election monitors have been invited in, to insure fairness, as they have been in other countries where leftists have won. If the majority is denied their candidate, greater civil unrest and political instability will surely occur. The rightwing stealing elections is a recipe for disorder.

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*(Morales also has a 60% to 70% approval rating--but a special effort was made by the Bushwhacks to destroy him, and the peace in Bolivia, by using Bolivia's special vulnerability--its white separatist minority--to stir up a coup attempt. Morales' enormous popularity was certainly a factor in quelling that coup. UNASUR in fact mentioned the big majorities that Morales had won in several elections--including half or nearly half the vote in some of the separatist provinces--against the fascist minority's plan to split up Bolivia.)

[Peace Patriot]

3. Here is a thread on one of those World Bank policies that destroyed Latin American

and other third world economies--privatization of public services and natural resources. The article cites Argentina as an example, which was actually "second world" edging toward "first world" when the World Bank/IMF struck, and turned Argentina into a basket case. (Leftist Nestor Kirchner finally restored economic stability, with help from Venezuela.) This is where Peru is headed under Garcia--toward ruination.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x13257

[Judi Lynn]

2. Yeah? Well, it's two years from now. A lot can happen.

How that bag of hot air EVER got back in as Peru's President is a modern miracle. His ratings have been as low as _{George W. Bush's.}






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