Re: More Questions on the Peruvian Revolutions

[lquispe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Luis Quispe)]

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>       I would appreciate being briefed on some of the factions involved,
> and where their politics are. And I would also appreciate a history of
> this revolution. Plus any reaction to the ridiculous sounding article
> which was syndicated in many papers, including the right-wing Columbus
> Dispatch. Here are some clips from the article:
>
>       Please clarify me on what is really going on in Peru, as the
> reactionary who wrote this piece seems to have little first-person
> knowledge himself about it, my questions and comments in paranthesis:
>
> -
> American Jailed in Peru deserves little sympathy
>
>       Human rights groups and legal-aid societies have taken up the
> cudgels for Lori Berenson, the 26 yr. old New Yorker sentenced to life in
> prison for hooking up with a terrorist group in Peru.
>
>       But it is hard to sympathize with her plight.
>THIS SHOW THAT THE "FREE PRESS" LACKS OBJETIVITY. IT IS BIASED AND
 TOTALLY SUPPORTIVE OF THE BLOODY DICTATOR IN PERU AND ITS MASTER US
 IMPERIALISM.

>       Berenson was a sandalista, one of those starry-eyed left-wing
> idealists who thought she could help Latin America's poor by waging
> revolution.
> MY RESPECT AND ADMIRATION GOES TO LORI BERENSON. What can we expect
  from the imperialist media? All the garbage they write against the
  People's War!!
> (Oh how I despise the bourgeoisie media)
>
>       Peru is not the United States. It is a land of rich coastal
> cities, appaling poverty in the Indian villages of the Andean highlands
> and unspeakable savagery on both sides of a guerrila war which has killed
> 30,000 people in the past 15 years.
>
  The writer has very little knowledge on Peru. It is in the coastal
 cities, especially Lima's shantytowns where the sea of people in
 poverty live...of course the miserable living conditions os the peasantry
 is similar in the countryside.

>       Two insurgant groups appeared to be winning until President
> Alberto Fujimori assumed dictatorial powers in 1992. Sendero Luminoso, the
> Maoist Shining Path, was terrorizing Incan peasants while its smaller
> urban cousin the MRTA specalized in bombings, bank robberies, kidnappings,
> and assasinations in Lima, the capital.

> The Incan peasants probable are the rich peasants or landlords. In the
  countryside, the
  revolution led by the PCP is made up mainly by poor peasants (they are
  approx. 95% of the peasantry.) If the People's Committees of poor peasants
  are being slaughtered by the revolutionaries, how is that they are their
  main supporters? (they also form most of the People's Army.)
  The PCP acts in both city and countryside, but principally in the
  countryside.

> (I'm not sure I understand this, aren't the MRTA and the Shining Path both
> waging some sort of communist revolution. Why would they slaughter the
> peasants?)
> That's pure slander. What happens is that the army (and part of its
  allied `united left') organizes and arms paramilitary peasants
  to use them as a buffer in combating the People's War. The same tactic
  used in Vietnam and Guatemala. To confront massess against masses.

>       His methods were not pretty, but they worked. Shining Path and the
> MRTA were virtually decapitated with most of their leaders killed or
> jailed. Terrorism declined, particularly in Lima, and investor confidence
> in Peru was restored.

> That was their dream, but it did not work. The masses make history, the
  Parties lead. In any revolution there are casualties, but to say
  "virtually decapited" is just a dream. The PCP restructured its
  leadership, the Central Committee was expanded, new battle fronts were
  opened, and since 1993 approx. 10,000 military and political actions
  were carried, most of them combats against the reactionary army.
  That's the reason that 65% of the country is under state of emergency
  and permanent curfews, there spectaculars guerrila actions e.g. take over
  of army garissons in Huallaga Valley, attack on Casino Maria Angola in
  Lima, take of dozens of towns, and smashing of at least 25 police stations.
  [See The New Flag, detailed account and source] Then, where is the
  defeated sendero?

>       Although Western governments decried Fujimori's "constitutional
> coup" his economic performance, and his undeniable popularity with
> Peruvians stilled most criticism.
> PURE PROPAGANDA. THIS DICTATOR THAT HAS ADDED 5
  MILLION PEOPLE TO LIVE UNDER THE POVERTY LEVEL, WHO HAS CAUSED THE
  SPREAD OF T.B. AND CHOLERA, WHO HAS FIRED .5 MILLION WORKERS BY
  FOLLOWING THE RECIPES OF THE IMF, IS HATED TO DEATH BY THE PEOPLE.
> (I don't understand this article one bit, please clarify me. Earlier on
> the author talks about the guerrila war against Fujimori, then says he is
> undeniably popular. Then after discussion the absurb poverty claims a
> strong economic performance. Someone please give me more information on US
> imperialism in Peru, and the truth about how the people feel about their
> dictator and his relations with US business interests)
>
>       For, besides taking on the guerrillas, Fujimori also cut inflation
> from 7600 percent to 20 percent, reversed a 2.6 oercent decline in GDP to
> 7 percent growth. And raised foreign-exchange reserves from zero to 2.5
> billion. His achievements won him re-election last year and a 65 percent
> approval rating, the highest of any Peruvian president.
> BOLDFACE LIE!! IN A FRAUDULENT EVENT WHERE EVEN THE DEAD VOTED FOR HIM,
  HE OBTAINED 23% OF THE REGISTERED VOTES. THERE WERE APPROX. 65%
  OF ABSENTEISM. HIS CONGRESSMEN OBTAINED LESS THAN 18% OF REGISTERED
  VOTERS. IT IS ILLIGITIMATE DICTATOR HOLD TIGHTLY ON THE BLOODY BAYONETS
 OF THE ARMY AND OF HIS MASTER U.S. IMPERIALISM.

> (How much of this stuff is truth, were the elections honest? Were the
> polls? The 'economic successes' how were they done, and at whose expense?)
> THERE ARE NO HONEST ELECTIONS IN LATINAMERICA. ALL IS PREDICTABLE
  (LOOK WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH SAMPER IN COLOMBIA), DO YOU KNOW THAT
  FUJIMORI'S CHIEF ADVISOR WAS A NARCOTRAFFICKER (VLADIMIRO MONTESINOS).

>       Human-rights groups have rightly complained that more than 1,000
> innocent people have been unjustly convicted of terrorism by secret
> military tribunals designed to mete out swift punishment rather than get
> at the truth. Berenson would be deserving of help if she were one of these
> innocents. But she is not.
> THE BERENSON CASE HELPED TO ILLUSTRATE THE JUSTICE OF 'HOODED JUDGES'
  IN PERU. WHAT WAS THE EVIDENCE AGAINST HER? THEY HAVE NONE. SHE WAS
  NOT INVOLVED IN ARMED STRUGGLE. THE FACELESS JUDGES USED HER
  HARANGUE AS EVIDENCE TO CONVICT HER.

> (Does the US have any involvement or support of the current government,
> what is the story wtih Berenson?)
> OF COURSE IT HAS A HEAVY INVOLVEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE MURDEROUS REGIME.
  IT IT IS LIKELY THAT THE BERENSON FILE WAS GIVEN TO THE PERUVIAN
  SIN (ALL THEY HAD TO DO IS TO FOLLOW HER - IT APPEARS THAT THE ONLY
  INDICATION THEY HAD WAS 'GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION' BY RENTING A HOUSE
  THAT WAS USED LATER ON BY THE MRTA- BUT WITH A LITTLE INTERNATIONAL
  PRESSURE FROM ACTIVISTS IN THE US, SHE WILL BE EXPELLED FROM PERU
  (LIKE IT WAS AN ITALIAN WOMAN RECENTLY) -BERENSON MAY HAVE TO BRIBE
  THE CORRUPT JUDGES AND THE MILITARY. SHE POSES NO THREAT TO THE
  REGIME. THE PCP DOES.

>       In her angry and defiant confession, televised for all to see,
> Berenson defended her colleagues as nonviolent revolutionaries rather than
> terrorists.
> COLLEAGUES? WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE? SHE DID NOT SAY THEY WERE HER
  COLLEAGUES? THE FREE PRESS STINKS!!

>       The State Department's annual terrorism review says the MRTA is
> "responsible for more anti-US attacks than any other group in Latin
> America." It goes after dplomats, businessmen, and missionaries.
> LIE. HE DID EVEN READ THE 1995 CIA FACT BOOK. THOUGH IT IS TRUE
  THAT MRTA (WHICH IS ALMOST EXTINGUISHED) DOES KIDNAP BUSINESSMAN
  FOR RAMSOM (WITH WHICH WE TOTALLY CONDEMN.) THE PEOPLE ONLY
 THE PEOPLE MUST SUPPORT THE REVOLUTION.


>       In other words, Berenson was helping her friends kill her fellow
> Americans.
> B.S. SHE WAS AT BEST A WELL INTENTIONATED LIBERAL WHO CAN HARDLY
  CARRIED OUT TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS "UNLESS THESE WERE AMERIKKKANS"
  I MEAN INVOLVED IN THE LOW INTENSITY WARFARE AGAINST THE PEOPLE.


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> Holger Jensen is international editor of the Rocky Mountain News, Denver
> -
> THIS JENSEN IS AS IGNORANT AS CALVIN SIMS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES.
>
> Marcelina Ccorimanya. The New Flag.
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