Al Giordano's take:A New Year's Eve rebel uprising takes the police station, and several blocks, by surprise, in the Peruvian town of Andahuyalas. The insurgents include - according to a report by Reuters - at least seven women soldiers. Their spokesman - Major Antauro Humala - is one of two brothers who led a similar rebellion against president-dictator Alberto Fujimori, a largely symbolic uprising that led to Fujimori's downfall.
The other brother - Ollanta Humala - was recently purged from Peru's military and is in a kind of reserve exile in South Korea, where he had been sent as the military attaché of his country's Embassy.
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And the military officer Humala's announcement that he will surrender, so quickly into the revolt, is reminiscent of the day in 1992 when a young military officer in Venezuela named Hugo Chavez turned himself in after a similar revolt, telling the TV cameras that he was retreating, "por ahora..."
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I don't know where this is going. But I sense - because past is usually prologue - that this is the shot across the bow that may change Peru's trajectory from Toledo's neoliberal obedience to the "war on drugs' and the savage capitalist impositions that its money-laundering black-market sustains... to a new era more in harmony with the advances underway in most of the rest of this hemisphere.
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