XXI Century holds unexpected surprises, political transvestites may end with the dignity and transform, once anti-imperialist and nationalist advocates of transnational corporations. This is the case of Alan García and his government.
no major differences, the ways to strengthen the power of these clusters are reminiscent of those used in the post-independence period to pay for liberal reform. Concessions for railways, bridges, dams, roads. Money and corruption to satisfy the political elite and military bases to reduce the danger of nationalist coups. Was the way to achieve the objectives: political control, economic and military of a country. The Peruvian government exercising these strategies today confirms the repression of their indigenous people. If in the nineteenth century carried out the removal of the territories belonging to indigenous peoples to meet the desire for accumulation of local oligarchies and nineteenth-century imperialism, represented by the United States and Britain, now sell their property for the benefit of multinationals and the new oligarchy.
however, was never an easy task for the ruling classes to implement these decisions. There are now five hundred years of resistance. But the tradeoff has been to use the military as a deterrent weapon. The first campaigns of the professional armed forces in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Paraguay, among others, were faced with the Araucanian pehuenches, Quechua, Aymara, Patagonians chichimecas or Pampeña. They were the first internal enemies. The killings have gone down in history. Oligarchies boasted of such strategies for robbing the wealth of their peoples. Also, the shortages labor led to the indigenous peoples to a farm in conditions of near slavery, extermination contributory cause a slow but steady. The table is widespread throughout Latin America. Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala were lower their Aboriginal populations the same speed as they did during the conquest. In their ideologues and promoters are not wrinkled her conscience to adjectives such practices as a diatribe between "civilization and barbarism." Today Alan Garcia speaks of the battle for progress. Expanding the boundary of the farms and make their own brand new landowners were one and the same thing. Laws against vagrancy were the argument to retain the estates the indigenous population. During these two centuries of independence have established draconian laws against the rights of indigenous peoples. Under the pretext of offering them a better world, they are forced to sell their land, move or deny property rights in favor of free markets. If they are obedient and submissive, in exchange for ceding land plots were relocated or transformed into cooperatives, in return are promised to build a health clinic open two hours a day, a school without means, enjoy electricity prices usury and buy GM seeds. A demonstration of ethnic discrimination and deceit. They are considered people without a future, overcome by history. Supported only folk to welcome profile of tourism enterprises. Indian for export.
Currently, the oligarchies, in collusion with transnational project a second great revolution. Consolidated exclusionary order and reform the state in its core areas: privatization, decentralization, deregulation, labor market flexibility, is now facing the task of seizing the subtropical forests, water, subsoil, and so on. Are the new mega-projects with the participation of energy companies, pharmaceutical, automotive, food, construction. Is the union of transnational capitalism and the sepoys to take over the planet's last remaining untapped. Everything is designed, from the forms of government, governance, to the networks to capitalize on the investment. A new imperialism is drawn into the bowels of Latin America. Representative democracy is reduced to an empty shell. The control over the population forced to constrain political rights to its simplest expression: the vote. There is a difference, dignity, social justice, let alone indigenous people accused of being responsible for underdevelopment.
What happened in Peru is no exception, are repeated in varying degrees in other countries. In Mexico, for example, we can not ignore the strength of the EZLN to safeguard the Lacandon Jungle and the forms of autonomy in the Good Government and snails. In Chile, the repression of the Mapuche population, applying anti-terrorism laws of the dictatorship, is to move the southernmost population and build dams. Social democratic governments of the Concertación not hesitate to keep more than 500 prisoners and killing Mapuche leaders "what if" encounters with law enforcement. In Colombia they are shot under the guise of the doctrine of democratic security. Thus order is restored. Accused terrorists and unpatriotic, they are ad-hoc laws apply to exempt those who fire and practicing murder ethnocide. In these cases, as often happens, the feeling of impunity covers made to interpret the actions of the armed forces as acts of legitimate defense.
Alan García and his government are convinced they have not committed crimes against humanity, or ethnocide. On the contrary, they are certainly acting within the law in force in enforcing the law, preventing an attack on private property and the rights of corporations. Your name must not forget, falls squarely in the history of humiliation and betrayal committed against indigenous peoples by the Social Democrats in the name of progress.
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