We must not lose the essence of someone who believes in what he knows. Yet at the same time we cannot just pigeonhole people as of the left, or of the right, or of the centre, christian democrats, social democrats, socialists or by any other label. The present crisis gives us an opportunity and a challenge. We have to reconstruct the institutions of democracy and run the economy in a disciplined way. We need well-ordered government and monetary polices which will bring about sustained economic growth and an increase in employment and at the same time making the ensuing benefits give a human face to politics and economics.
Countries are no longer rich or successful or viable because of the natural resources they contain.
Look at Iraq or Kuwait or Venezuela. We ourselves have a great deal of gold and copper. That is the most profitable investment. We have to take an undernourished two-year old from the department of Puno in the South or Cajamarca in the North where early malnutrition is worst, feed him or her and provide 20 years of education. My own contribution is to be a rebel with a cause, to have broken the paradigm of fear and to have confronted a sinister state apparatus.