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06SAOPAULO374
2006-04-06 12:21:00
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Consulate Sao Paulo
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: ELECTIONS IN PERU; SAO
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UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000374
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: ELECTIONS IN PERU; SAO
PAULO
UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000374
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: ELECTIONS IN PERU; SAO
PAULO
1. "Peruvian Elections"
Liberal Folha de S. Paulo (4/6) editorialized: "The prospect of
candidate Ollanta Humala being elected president in Peru is
worrisome. Although he presents himself as a leftist nationalist,
it seems more correct to describe him as an ultranationalist with
strong authoritarian trends. He promised to ban foreign companies
from operating in 'strategic' sectors and to review fiscal
incentives given to mining companies in addition to industrializing
coca leaf production. Some analysts have accused him of hiding his
true ideas, which are somewhat delusionary and even racist. They say
that he plans to recreate the Inca Empire as democracy exclusively
for indigenous and mestizo people. When in the military, Humala was
involved in the violent repression of members of the also violent
Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group.... If he actually wins, Humala
will reach the power without any party structure to support him, as
happened with his immediate predecessors Alberto Fujimori and
Alejandro Toledo. And the combination of radical ideas with a weak
political and institutional environment has never had a happy end."
2. "Left And Right"
Political analyst Demetrio Magnoli wrote in liberal Folha de S.
Paulo (4/6): "Ollanta Humala has been openly praised by [Presidents]
Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, in addition to receiving discreet
support from President Lula. The media is treating him as part of a
'leftist wave' in Latin America. However, Humala is a rare species:
he is what is closest to fascism in this part of the world....
Humala has recently begun waving the Bolivarian flag in his
discourse. But this is an artificial element of a foreign policy
vision of which the real 'Homeland' is an 'integration' of Peru and
Bolivia into a state replacing the Inca Empire."
McMullen
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: ELECTIONS IN PERU; SAO
PAULO
1. "Peruvian Elections"
Liberal Folha de S. Paulo (4/6) editorialized: "The prospect of
candidate Ollanta Humala being elected president in Peru is
worrisome. Although he presents himself as a leftist nationalist,
it seems more correct to describe him as an ultranationalist with
strong authoritarian trends. He promised to ban foreign companies
from operating in 'strategic' sectors and to review fiscal
incentives given to mining companies in addition to industrializing
coca leaf production. Some analysts have accused him of hiding his
true ideas, which are somewhat delusionary and even racist. They say
that he plans to recreate the Inca Empire as democracy exclusively
for indigenous and mestizo people. When in the military, Humala was
involved in the violent repression of members of the also violent
Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group.... If he actually wins, Humala
will reach the power without any party structure to support him, as
happened with his immediate predecessors Alberto Fujimori and
Alejandro Toledo. And the combination of radical ideas with a weak
political and institutional environment has never had a happy end."
2. "Left And Right"
Political analyst Demetrio Magnoli wrote in liberal Folha de S.
Paulo (4/6): "Ollanta Humala has been openly praised by [Presidents]
Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, in addition to receiving discreet
support from President Lula. The media is treating him as part of a
'leftist wave' in Latin America. However, Humala is a rare species:
he is what is closest to fascism in this part of the world....
Humala has recently begun waving the Bolivarian flag in his
discourse. But this is an artificial element of a foreign policy
vision of which the real 'Homeland' is an 'integration' of Peru and
Bolivia into a state replacing the Inca Empire."
McMullen