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[Luis Quispe <lquispe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Good post Michael.
We are preparing a detailed article on the "privatizations" and their
effects. Luis.

> re-peru's national interest
> Date: 25 Apr 1996 17:08:53 GMT
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> re-peru's national interest
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> The question of what constitutes national interest in Peru
> is worth raising. Peru was one of the last colonies to be
> freed from Spanish rule. Independence was actually imposed on Peru by its
> neighbours in order to drive Spain from the continent. The military has
> played a central role in the consolidation of the Peruvian state from its
> inception up to the present day. But
> popular support never seems to have been achieved, part. in the Andes.
>
> The last (aborted) effort in this direction was the national reform program
> of the military government that took power in the late sixties. These were
> stopgap measures to pacify rural unrest, US-sanctioned nationalizations.
>
> Eg. PetroPeru -
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> "Partial nationalization of foreign-owned oil fields serves
> further to 'steal the thunder' of left-wing and nationalist
> political forces. The damage done to one foreign company,
> Standard Oil of New Jersey, is more than offset by the benefits offered to it
> and other US corporations in the form of new oil-exploration concessions and
> investment grants and tax exemptions in other sectors of the economy, which
> in turn
> become ever more dominated by foreign capital" (James
> Cockcroft, Last Rites for the Reformist Model, 1971).
>
> Twenty five years later, even these meager reforms are
> being undone. The electric company and PetroPeru are
> being sold off. The large sugar co-ops - which were the
> heart of Velasco's agrarian reforms - are being broken up.  Unemployment and
> underemployment are rising and the
> "informal sector" is mushrooming as the public sector
> dwindles.
>
> (This appears to apply as well to the Peruvian army -
> which is being privatized and taken over by the coca cartels.)
>
> Michael Luftmensch
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