Peru elite braces for possible Humala victory

[arcos]

Peru elite braces for possible Humala victory

At a corner table in an exclusive coffee house in Miraflores, an upmarket suburb of Lima, an elderly man holds court. Over cappuccinos and exotic fruit salad, two entrepreneurs are telling him about the benefits of state funding for the arts.

The man, an aide to Ollanta Humala, the radical nationalist frontrunner in Peru’s presidential race, listens quietly to the pitch but makes no promises. He is sympathetic to the idea, he says, but reducing poverty will be Mr Humala’s main priority.

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The outcome of the country’s general election on April 9 may be uncertain, but many within Lima’s political and business elite are planning for a Humala victory. A proponent of higher taxes and greater state involvement in the economy, Mr Humala is not a natural friend of business. But while some businessmen cling to hopes of a more traditional candidate winning, others are jockeying for position and trying to shape the policies of the next government.

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Mr Humala leads Lourdes Flores, the conservative free-marketeer who is his main rival, by four points, according to the most recent poll by Apoyo, a respected pollster. But as the election draws closer his campaign is gathering steam, while hers is faltering. Alan García, the controversial former president, is trailing in third place.

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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1ed51882-b8fa-11da-b57d-0000779e2340.html

[KingFlorez]

1. Turn Left

I hope he wins, these left-wing leaders really make the neocons cringe because they can't control them. Let's hope we have our own left turn in the US soon.

[IndianaGreen]

2. Well, the elites can always join the Venezuelan elites

and get Condi Rice to start talking about the new axis of evil in Latin America composed of Ollanta Humala in Peru, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.

[rpannier]

3. If he wins that means that 6 of the most influential countries

in South America are run by leftist governments:
Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Venezuela. That's really going to isolate the right-wing government in Colombia both politically and economically within the region.

[Peace Patriot]

4. You forgot Uruguay! Virtually the entire map of South America has gone

"blue" over the last several years--an amazing and profound and unstoppable revolution. Ollanta Humala is riding a BIG WAVE, involving billions of people, one of the key components of which is TRANSPARENT elections. (U.S. voters, take note!*) He's going to win. So is the leftist mayor of Mexico City--Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ("Amlo")--who is running for president of Mexico and is ahead in the polls.

Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Venezuela, Uruguay, Peru, Mexico--and more (possibly Nicaragua)--all united with common themes of equity for the poor, self-determination, anti-imperialism, anti-global corporate predation, and anti-Bush and his dreadful war on Iraq. THAT is a revolution, and one that cannot be stopped.

When Bolivia elected its first indigenous Indian as president, recently--Evo Morales--he was invested, prior to his official inauguration, in a special ceremony attended by ten thousand Andes Indians--the connective tissue between Bolivia and Peru. Humala is also indigenous.

As Evo Morales recently said (in regard to Humala's campaign): "The time of the people has come."

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*We can have a good government here, too, but first we have to restore our right to vote--and retrieve it from the Bushite corporations that gained control of our election system in 2001-2004 period, with 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code in the new electronic voting machines and central tabulators, with virtually no audit/recount controls (--the work of the two biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney--who pushed through the $4 billion "Help America Vote Act" boondoggle, a bill that corrupted and destroyed our election system, as intended).

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*Some resources for American Revolution II:

www.VoterAction.org (suing the state of California and 18 Calif county registrars on behalf of 25 California voter/plaintiffs, on the Diebold "certification").
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2180496


www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.verfiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.votetrustusa.org (news of this great movement from around the country)
www.UScountvotes.org (statistical monitoring of '06 and '08 elections)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)
www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.bradblog.com (also great, and devoted to election reform)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)** :patriot: :applause: :patriot:
Sign the petition (Russ Holt, HR 550, great bill-has 169 sponsors). http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html
www.votepa.us (well-organized local group of citizen activists in Pennsylvania, where important legal issues are at stake, including state's rights over election systems)

www.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
www.johnbonifaz.com (running for Massachusetts Sec of State on strong election reform and antiwar platform)

**Some tributes to TruthIsAll, who is very ill:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417231
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x675477

Also of interest:

Bob Koehler (-- four recent election reform initiatives in Ohio, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet; the election theft machines and their masters are now dictating election policy!)
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk

Bob Koehler's latest: "Take this box and stuff it" (3/16/06)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col337.htm

Amaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and all election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!

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