Leftist Humala vows growth will reach poor in Peru

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Leftist Humala vows growth will reach poor in Peru
By Terry Wade and Teresa Cespedes

LIMA | Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:23pm EDT

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's leftist President Ollanta Humala promised on Thursday to ensure the poor take part in the country's economic boom and sought to show investors he will govern as a moderate who has abandoned his radical past.

The former army commander vowed to keep existing free-market economic and trade policies intact while providing a minimum pension for all Peruvians over age 65 and raising the minimum wage.

He said social programs will be financed in part by a new tax on the windfall profits of companies in Peru's vast mining sector.

"We want the term 'social exclusion' to disappear from our language and lives forever," Humala said in his first speech after being sworn in as leader of one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/28/us-peru-humala-idUSTRE76R57J20110728

[Judi Lynn]

1. New Peruvian president: Peru's poor my priority

New Peruvian president: Peru's poor my priority
FRANK BAJAK Associated Press
Published: July 28, 2011

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Ollanta Humala, the leftist military man who won Peru's presidency after abandoning a radical platform, promised in his inaugural address Thursday to make his priority the one in three Peruvians still mired in poverty.

In an impassioned speech, the 49-year-old former army lieutenant colonel charted a plan for spreading the wealth from Peru's mineral boom beyond Lima, where it has long been concentrated among a small elite, to long-neglected hinterlands.

"Peru's peasants and the poor in the countryside in general will be the priority," Humala said in remarks before a newly installed Congress and dignitaries who included 11 presidents, almost all from South America.

He quoted South Africa's anti-apartheid hero and former president, Nelson Mandela, in arguing there can be no democracy where misery and "social asymmetry" persist.

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[rabs]

2. Humala is leader of the Peruvian Nationalist Party

and as such more of a left-of-center nationalist.

He is not a "leftist" in the sense of the Castros or Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, as Reuters reporters would have readers think.

Also, the Reuters reporters says he was a "former army commander." That is incorrect.

The highest rank Humala attained was Lieutenant Colonel. He was never commander of the Peruvian Army. He retired from the army in 2005.

Typical and shallow reporting by Reuters reporters on complex Latin American issues.

Humala is inheriting a big mess left behind by Alan Garcia, and that is the on-going protests by indigenous groups opposed to massive mining projects by multi-national corporations.

The foreign companies were granted the mining concessions by the Garcia government. The indigenous groups say their ancestral land, rivers and lakes are being soiled by waste from the mines.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Yes, I noticed the "framing," too, in both the Rotters article and the Associated Pukes article

that Judi Lynn provided.

Ever see Bush Jr. described as "the rightwing President of the U.S. who cut the taxes of the rich" or as "the AWOL lieutenant in the champagne unit of the Texas National Guard"? As a matter of fact, ever see ANY modern president, anywhere, described as "former" military anything, unless they are candidates for bogeyman 'dictators' (i.e., advocates of the poor and thus targets of Rotters and Associated Pukes demonization)? Ever see ANY modern president described by their position on the political spectrum unless they advocate for the poor and social justice in which case they are tagged as a "leftist" and if possible as "former military"? Ever see ANY modern president or other office holder who serves transglobal corporations, war profiteers and the super-rich described as "rightwing" let alone the most accurate term for such service--fascist?

These Rotters and Associated Pukes so-called journalists twist and squirm and sweat and visibly agonize over a leftist being elected president of Peru--ONE MORE leftist in a tidal wave of leftist victories in Latin America--as if they were hanging by their thumbs over a flaming pit and madly wriggling to avoid being melted. They CAN'T STAND it! They try to tag him as a "radical leftist" in sheep's clothing, a militarist because he served in the military, an incipient "dictator," a nutball social engineer who thinks nobody should be excluded from prosperity when Wall Street "wisdom" dictates poverty as an essential condition for the lucky few to get filthy rich, and how can their bosses and their cronies get filthy rich in Peru and Latin America with decent wages and pensions for the elderly poor?

This article is an ARGUMENT not a news article. Worse, it is PROPAGANDA, not news. The only 'news' value in it is to alert other rich investors, transglobal corporations and war profiteers to target Humala with their own propaganda horns, dirty tricks, lies, rumors, disinformation, covert ops, financial manipulations, well-funded NGOs and "think tanks" and rightwing/fascist networks. This is "news" "of, by and for" wealthy scumbags.

Specifically, these Rotters and Associated Pukes whore "journalists" hate Humala, on behalf of their owners, because he dares to tax the mining operations of their corporate cronies, to pay for social programs. They've had a free ride with the corrupt Garcia and the Bushwhack U.S. "free trade" agreement. And we know that a "free ride" for the super-rich is at the heart of this fascist cabal that is running things. They are after Social Security and Medicare, here. They are targeting social programs and "the commons" everywhere--whether looting public education, health care, public and private pensions and everything that benefits society, or privatizing public utility systems, the public airwaves, natural resources and even military and police forces, and including deregulation of the banksters and every socially responsible law. And they have for a long time been trying to shed any obligation to society whatsoever. Their workers can starve, rot and die. They couldn't care less. Those who provide the labor, infrastructure and social stability that they brutally exploit to build transglobal powers that control governments and the world, can eat shit, as far as they are concerned.

It is no accident that they even hate "moderates"--i.e., Humala's decision to advocate mild reform, from a leftist perspective (rather than a social revolution, i.e., Chavez, Morales and others). Why? Because "moderates" also recognize the OBLIGATION of the rich to share with the poor for the good of society--for the good of all. Broken societies can only be squeezed for profits for so long, then they collapse. The suicidal super-rich are INDUCING collapse to get even richer. That is overwhelmingly evident in the U.S., and also in the U.K. and the EU., and of course it is the history of Latin America over the last two decades--exploitation to the point of ruin. Latin America has balked, and has asserted itself against this suicidal Wall Street/bankster madness, and so even the "moderates" are targets. We've seen it here--where the "moderate" view is way, WAY right of center yet is demonized as "socialist" (i.e., someone defending a basic social good system like Social Security is described as "leftist"). And Humala, who merely advocates decent wages and fair taxation is subjected to all this vitriol, by Rotters and the Associated Pukes, about being a "military commander" and a secret radical, blah, blah, blah.

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