From: ez007856@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: PERU
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:38:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucdavis.12031
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

Now we have truly seen Oscar's color.  First he supports the Peruvian's 
democratically elected government againsts Sendero's totalitarian rule and now 
he states that Peruvian democracy must :

1) be based on polls:

>So now, FUJI is in power [...]backed by the inmense mayority of the 
population, >a poll taken yesterday shows 88% approval of the measures !!!!.

2) have no constitutional base:

>Trully the method is gross and unconstitutional. The constitution is not good 
>to provide ways to settle the paralysis that come from the dispute among power 
>branches, it is trully naif and clumsy to that respect.

3) Exist withouth checks and balances:

>What can he do to perform his job and mandate if the Congress is dominated by 
a >bunch of self-deserving "politiqueros" that its task is to block all 
>initiatives, no matter how valuable they are??? 

4) have ALL elected legislators declared corrupt politician and placed under 
arrest:

>But then then Congress and the army of do-nothing politicians start to block 
>ALL EFFORTS TO PROGRESS, they want to stop privatization (leaded by the tragic 
>APRA party that basically said : I OPPOSE ALL WHAT THE GOVERNMENT DOES they 
>don't realize the urgency of the situation, instead they increase their perks 
>(2500 dollars a month in a country where the average worker recives 150 they 
>pass a law giving that salary for all their live, they block the reform of 
>judiciary, the nightmare is daily,they simply demonstrate their uselesness to 
>the people ( only 4 to 5% said  the Congress have any relevance in Jan92) 
>Totally off track, totally out of touch, totally irresponsible. Proposal for 
>referendum are rejected in Congress, fearing that FUJI will win the popular 
>vote.

6) Is legitimized by the also corrupt Japanese Diet:

>Remember that the people that trully knows and understand the gravity of Peru 
>situation have always backed FUJI economic policies and military strategy 
(Bert >Aronson, Camdemssus, the Japanese government, among others

7) Is grounded on Machiavelli's principle: the ends justify the means:

>With the colapse of Eastern Block and the subsequent embracement of 
capitalism >many people coined the phrase "Communism is the shortest path to 
Capitalism" as >to refer as the need that all societies have to face a period 
of hardships in >which the fundamnental and pivotal decisions have to be taken 
in a decisive and >unopposed way. 

>Maybe the FUJI-movements are not optimal but are necessary to get out of the 
>destruction path of Peruvian society,[...]

Perhaps most striking is not this characterization of "democracy" but rather 
the internal contradictions of his discourse.  On the one hand we are given a 
grim outlook of Peru (by which it is necessary to support the supreme military 
dictator):

>Peru is facing the last years the most serious crisis in its history. Not 
only >the bills of overlending are due, but the whole structure of scociety is 
>changing, The "classic burgoise" has been fleeing the country to Miami and 
>other places, the State apparatus have been proven inept and corrupt at the 
>time that State companies accounts for more than 60% GDP, alternative methods 
>of investment are not in place, the wealth of the resources of the country is 
>dormant, 65% of Peruvians is dirty poor, a third of the people live in 
>precarious settlements. Overall Shining Path and the coca trafiquers have a 
>strong alliance, the dirtiness of drug business is here mixed with the 
violence >of maoism pol-pot-style. Things are bad, really bad in some area

Then we are told the nietschean superman and follower of Hirohito and Yamamoto 
is a super popular politico amongst the peruvian masses:

>Now, there comes in 1990 Fujimori, a guy with energy, a guy with decision,a 
guy >without compromises neither with burguoise nor politicians. He faces the 
>problems(act that is noble in itself) understand that they shoould drastically 
>reduce the State companies, follow monetary dicipline and give the fight, the 
>real fight agains Sendero, which is draining the blood of Society.The plans 
are >successful up to now, and the show is really starting.

That's precisely what many germans thought in the early 30's:

>Now, there comes in 193_ Adolf Hitler, , a guy with energy, a guy with 
>decision, a guy without compromises neither with burguoise nor politicians. He 
>faces the problems (act that is noble in itself) understand that they shoould 
>drastically reduce the State companies, follow monetary discipline and give 
the >fight, the real fight against communism, which is draining the blood of 
>Society.

Perhaps Mr. Frias should just abandon democratic ideals and simply espouse 
fascist brand dictatorships, since his "historical" reasoning teaches us that 
dictorships really work.  See for yourself:

>Although the hypothesis appears not to hold to all cases (look Albania) 
similar >reasoning can be exerted and backed with facts if you the cases of 
Chile, >Malasya, Singapur, Korea, Taiwan and other successful examples.(SPAIN) 
(maybe I >should include Cuba in this list if everything happens accordingly) 
There are >very serious rigidities in some societies that the "formal 
democratic >organization" has been uncapable to eliminate.In the contrary 
democracy appears >to increase the waste, the ilogical, the paralysis and the 
corruption.(I recall >the words of Pinochet talking about the "Seniores 
Politicos", here).

Why not include, as ready reference, the works of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, 
Mao, Pol Pot and Camarado Gonzalo as further cases of dictatorships which have 
eleminated "waste, the ilogical, the paralysis and the corruption."?  I can 
only conclude that Mr. "FUJI" and his "group" of defenders are not so 
politically distinct from Sendero after all. No Oscar, Mr. "FUJI" need not 
defeat Sendero in Peru; senderismo has already won.

Edelmiro

POST DATUM  I've just heard a famous Spanish journalist and senderologo has 
been dissappeared by the FUJI group.  I wonder if this was all in their 
scheme...