Technocrats align with Peru’s Humala

[Judi Lynn]

Technocrats align with Peru’s Humala
April 19 2011 at 01:58am
By Teresa Cespedes

Lima - Left-wing nationalist Ollanta Humala added experienced technocrats to his campaign team on Monday, trying to convince investors he would keep much of Peru's market economy intact if elected president in June.

Among more than a dozen new advisers were two economists well-known in Peru: Kurt Burneo, the former president of state-run Banco de la Nacion, and Oscar Dancourt, the former president of Peru's central bank.

They had been affiliated with former President Alejandro Toledo, the architect of Peru's free-trade pact with the United States.

Humala, running on a promise to fight rural poverty that has persisted despite a decade-long economic boom, won the first-round vote on April 10 with almost 32 percent of the vote.

More:
http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/technocrats-align-with-peru-s-humala-1.1058536

[Peace Patriot]

1. I'm wondering about the Rotters tag at the end of the article.

The last two paragraphs read exactly as follows:

"Humala's campaign chief, Salomon Lerner, said his team was trying to emphasise programmatic goals while downplaying doubts about ideological differences among aides on Humala's expanding team.

“'The points of agreement that matter are that we want to continue to grow, but with wealth redistribution,' Lerner said on RPP radio. - Reuters"

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Rotters (i.e., Reuters with my "spin" on their name) is a lying, manipulative, corporate crapola 'news' service on issues pertaining to the Latin America left. They may be lying shits on other issues as well but I tend to notice Latin American items. They are as bad as the Associated Pukes.

The news site that printed this--"iol.co.za"--appears to be a corporate news monopoly controlling numerous newspapers and broadcast venues in South Africa. It has a bunch of corporate crap at its site--blah-blah about Hollywood stars :puke: etc. Glitzy distraction. Gross disservice to their readers/viewers. They don't identity this article writer, Teresa Cespedes, as Rotters, and they put this odd tag at the end. In any case, it's a classic Rotters mind-fuck, and they aren't just fucking with their readers--they are trying to fuck with Humala as well. This article is a THREAT. Their billionaire owners will--as Richard Nixon once said about Chile--"make" Peru's "economy scream" if he isn't a "good boy" about transglobal corporate rapacious mining in Peru--if he dares to assert Peru's sovereignty over its resources, if he dares to demand that Peru's resources benefit the people who live there, and if he dares to go to "too" far in righting the egregious wrongs of U.S./Bushwhack "free trade for the rich"--among them, dire poverty for most Peruvians.

Peru is long overdue for the "New Deal" that other Latin Americans are enjoying from leftist government. It's time for Peru to join the vast leftist democracy movement in South America. It's time for Peruvians to benefit from the new spirit of cooperation among South American countries led by leftist governments, with common goals of social justice and national and regional independence. That is what the first round in this election meant. Humala nearly won the prior presidential election, getting a 15% point boost from the endorsements of Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez, between the first and final rounds (--something these corpo-fascist 'news' sources continually lie about). That was the real bellweather. What he needs to do to win--as demonstrated in that election--is inspire the vast poor majority TO VOTE. The vast poor majority has been LEFT OUT OF Bushwhack "free trade for the rich." If they get even more inspired to vote, Humala wins. And they are NOT inspired by corpo-fascism.

Rotters and its corporate masters KNOW that it's time. They KNOW they can't stop it. They are bullying Humala to go "centrist" and threatening him and Peru's majority if he doesn't. ALL THEY ARE INTERESTED IN is CONTINUING their ruinous resource extraction and other exploitation. U.S., British and European corporations have been doing this to Latin American countries for centuries. But the political landscape in Latin America has utterly changed for the better, with the election of leftist governments in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala (and in Honduras until the U.S.-supported coup). That is the future for Latin America--and this is especially true of Peru, with leftist countries on most of its borders and a large, impoverished Indigenous population which can see plainly enough the rise of the Indigenous to political power right next door in Bolivia. So the corpo-fascists are trying to bend Humala--to coerce him--and are following a CIA script, actually, to employ "divide and conquer" tactics against this new Latin American leftist force, which has succeeded because of the UNITY of leaders like Lula da Silva and Hugo Chavez.

We should be aware of the actual 'news' (propaganda) source for articles like this. It is apparently a Rotters product promulgated by this crappy 'news' monopoly in South Africa.