Bolivia's President Criticizes Peru & Promotes Chavez During Stay

[Judi Lynn]

Source: LIP-ir

2 August, 2007 < 21:00 >

Bolivia's President Criticizes Peru & Promotes Chavez During Stay

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(LIP-ir) -- In a conversation with journalists, after a ceremony at the monument of the founder of the APRA party, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peru's Premier expressed his thoughts about the behavior of Bolivia's President Evo Morales. The ceremony was held in the district of Cercado de Lima in commemoration of APRA's founder.

Peru's Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo, stated that Evo Morales put his manners aside when deciding to criticize Peru's economic policies during his visit to Peru.

"I think Mr. Morales has lost a little courtesy. When a person is a guest in a country, they should rise to the occasion," said an obviously perturbed del Castillo.

In a speech given to union leaders, representatives and members in the district of Villa El Salvador, Bolivia's president Evo Morales criticized Peru's economic policies and asked unions to stick together and fight the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S.

Morales congratulated all those who have made an effort to establish and carry out the ALBA project in Peru, stating that the plan Hugo Chavez had created was an excellent alternative for countries in the Americas.



Read more: http://www.livinginperu.com/news/4399

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Mr. Magic, Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo, with
Peru's _Bush-approved President, Alan Garcia

[Judi Lynn]

1. Maybe this clown should go right back home, and start helping his stupid ass pResident

find a way to bring some kind of help to protect the tiny population of Native Peruvian citizens who are standing right in the way of total destruction at the hands of illegal mahogany loggers. He can worry about whether or not people are bowing and scraping sufficiently to him at a later time, when he shouldn't be trying to offer what little help he's capable of giving in his sorry, pathetic life:

Peru-Brazil: Tribes Flee 'Red Gold' Rush

Friday, 3 August 2007, 3:03 pm
Press Release: Survival International

Peru-Brazil: Uncontacted Tribes Flee 'Red Gold' Rush
A large group of uncontacted Indians has appeared in a remote village in the Amazon rainforest near the Peru-Brazil border, a Brazilian government official and expert on uncontacted tribes has reported.

The Indians are believed to have fled from Peru into Brazil because of illegal loggers sweeping through Peru's rainforests in search of rare mahogany, known as 'red gold.' The loggers are destroying the Indians' territories, forcing them to seek refuge elsewhere and leading to dangerous contacts with outsiders.

The Indians suddenly appeared at a village called Bananeira and spent a day and a night there. Another, smaller group of uncontacted Indians was also spotted at a nearby settlement called Liberdade.

'We are on the verge of disaster. Illegal logging in protected areas in Peru is pushing the uncontacted tribes into Brazil, which could cause conflicts and lead to their appearance in places where they have never been seen before,' said José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Júnior, head of the Indian Protection post near the Peru border. Mr Meirelles made his statement in an urgent alert sent to the Brazilian government.

Peru has some of the world's last commercially-viable mahogany stands in the world, growing in areas inhabited by some of the world's last uncontacted tribes. Because of their isolation, the tribes do not have immunity to outsiders' diseases and any form of contact with them can be fatal.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00100.htm

[Vidar]

2. Viva Morales!

[Mika]

3. How dare Morales support unions and criticize the FTA in Peru!!11!!

He just doesn't seem to get it..... large multinational corporations have our best interests at heart. Really, they do. :sarcasm:

[David__77]

4. Stopping starvation more important than "manners."

"Manners" are fine for those that are content and well off. What do they do for those who have nothing?

[Greyhound]

5. Is it possible for an individual state to join ALBA?

Have to get to work now, but I seem to recall something in The Constitution that would prohibit this. I do think it would be a good move if it were possible though.

Just bypass the politiwhores in DC and kill NAFTA through lack of participation.:evilgrin:

[Peace Patriot]

6. The Bolivarians are speaking the truth! Evo Morales of Bolivia, Rafael Correa of Ecuador,

and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, are speaking the core truth about South America--the destructiveness of U.S. corporate domination of their economies--and are actively addressing that imbalance, with the support of the vast majorities of their people, and with their allies--Kirchner in Argentina, Vasquez in Uruguay, Ortega in Nicaragua, and, to some extent, Lula da Silva in Brazil (a former steelworker)--by creating new institutions that foster South American self-determination.

Chavez, as the most well-known spokesman of this peaceful revolution, has taken the biggest hit of Bushite/Corporate hatred. That hatred is aimed at lulling the people in the U.S. and preventing us from knowing that this revolution is very widespread in South America, and is a genuine peoples' movement. They want us to not notice or care if they succeed in assassinating Chavez and destabilizing the Andes democracies. And they don't want us to know that there are examples of real democracy in this hemisphere. We might get ideas.

Peru, like Colombia, has a Bush-toady government. But this grass roots, peoples' movement--the Bolivarian revolution--is big in Peru and also Paraguay. We're likely to see "the bishop of the poor," Fernando Lugo, elected president of Paraguay this year. (And the current government has already joined the Bank of the South.) And, after Alan Garcia has wrecked Peru's economy with Bushite "trade deals," the next election cycle in Peru will likely see a leftist Bolivarian elected.

In addition to "free trade" (global corporate predation), the Bush Junta has infused the dinosaur states, Colombia and Peru, with billions of US tax dollars in military aid for the phony "war on drugs." This money is intended to cause trouble--by spraying small peasant farmers with pesticides and other violence perpetrated by rightwing paramilitaries who are closely allied with the "war on drug" forces. The US/Bush/Corporate disinformation campaign against Chavez is the psyops part of a plan for violent destabilization. We who are funding this evil--albeit unwillingly or unknowingly--need to understand that the Andes region, rich in oil, gas, minerals and other resources, is the Bush/Corporate second "theater of war." They will not succeed in their plots, in my opinion, but they can nevertheless inflict more suffering, and they will leave our name besmirched, as they have everywhere else.

[Robbien]

7. The FTA agreement with the US allows banks to sue Peru if Peru

wises up and dumps the privatization of their social security plan. The privatization has very bad consequences which has resulted in many in Peru thinking about dumping it. The US Banks which made out like a bandit on the privatization wants protections in this new FTA which will allow them to continue feasting off the almost bankrupt pensioners.

Garcia keeps begging the US to pass the FTA while his people have massive protests in the streets.