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...editorial's treatment of Peruvian politics is just as insulting and parochial. The author's description of the return of democracy in 1980 is a blatant falsehood: "the brass realized Peruvians were getting sick of them and returned power to--of all people the befuddled Belaunde." In fact, Belaunde was elected by all Peruvians in a free and democratic election called by a Constitutional Assembly (to which representatives were also freely elected) in 1979 with the supervision of international observers from the United Nations and the Organization of American States...
Characterizations such as "Haya de la Torre, your standard Latin American charismatic type," "Belaunde, the Herbert Hoover of Peruvian politics: and "Furjimoro [sic] known as the karate kid" (Fujimori, the last name of the current Peruvian President was misspelled throughout the entire editorial as Fukimoro) only serve to create a stereotype which depicts Peruvian leaders as being cartoon characters. I hardly believe that Javier Perez de Cuellar (former Secretary General of teh United Nations) and writer Mario Vargas Llosa (who will shortly be a visiting professor at Harvard), both current leaders in Peruvian society, fit stereotypes that the author...
...author's statement that the Peruvian government has been "by, for and of rich white people" reflects the misperception held by many Americans that Latin America has been ruled by a few families since its independence. During 15 of the last 20 years, Peru has had rather progressive governments. As the author acknowledges in his article, the military Junta which ruled in the '70s showed "great sympathy for the landless poor and implemented a reform agenda...
...economic problems confronted by the Peruvian poor are probably the harshest that any Latin American population has ever confronted. This was clearly expressed by the the United State Secretary of State at the Organization of American States meeting on Monday April 13: "No nation and no people face a more daunting, dangerous or terrible set of crises than those inherited by the new democratic government of Peru less than two years ago. No nation and no people need and deserve international solidarity and support more than the Peruvian nation and Peruvian people. They confront the deepest economic crisis of their...
...virtually ceased to exist. When the people see themselves as victims rather than beneficiaries of the system, they have little use for the ballot box and little regard for constitutional procedure. All they want is a modicum of safety, equity and discipline, which is what Fujimori and the Peruvian military are promising...