Presidential Elections - I'm speechless
"Pucha! Nos Cagamos!", those were my aunts words were when I asked her about the elections yesterday.
Basically, Ollanta Humala is in the lead of the race. With 30% of the popular votes, he has secured his place in the second running (this due to the lack of a majority vote). From a democratic perspective, this is not a good sign. He has promised to 'share the wealth' of Peru amongst the excluded population; the non-european descent population. Which ideally, it is a great concept but very unfeasible with a country like mine - Peru. Peru needs foreign investment to boost the economy, provide for more jobs and be able to remain expanding the growth that the country has been going through for the past 52 months. Having a Peru follow the Chavez-Venezulean model just brings more chaos, foreign animosity and he (Ollanta) will most likely overthrow the congress to build a new one to his favor. Thus, installing a dictatorship like Chavez did in Venezuela.
Cuba and Venezuela are not in good shape. If you believe that with an income of $12/mo, one can get by easily, well you are mistaken. I ask, plead and basically beg for all my fellow peruvians to gather people to vote for the opposing party, whoever that may be at this point. If Alan Garcia heads to the second round... (can't belive I am saying this but) please choose him; he is the less of two evils.
At 11pm (Peruvian time), Alan Garcia leads with 24.93 and Lourdes follows with 24.03. That is nine tenths of a difference and with 80% of the ballots counted. Lourdes Flores needs 91,000 votes to level out the playing field. My main questions are 1) Why on earth is Alan Garcia running again? Does he not kow what else to do with his life?) 2) Most importantly, why does he have any votes in this election?
Do people forget that easily? Or are us, Peruvians, that confused?
Do we not remember the rationing of food? Inflation? the devalue of the 'Inti' currency where people lost almost everything? the uprise of the maoist groups MRTA and Sendero Luminoso (shining path) and the beginning of their infiltration in Lima? National curfews? and the 'disappearance' of gold in the Peruvian Bank of Reserve? ... was twenty years ago such a long time ago?
In other news, I also got to cautch a glimpse of the footage of Ollanta's disgraced appearance at the University of Ricardo Palma while he was trying to cast his vote. Masses of peruvians sat outside the locale yelling and yanting, "Asesino!", "Ollanta Maricon" and "Ollanta Y Montesinos.. la misma porqueria!". I was completely distraught by seeing people yelling and literally throwing themselves against Ollanta and his wife in attemps to block their exit. I could imagine being stuck in that crowd and fainting. It was a sight to see - complete and utter chaos.
Also, some peculiar news afloated after the footage of Humala during his Ricardo Palma experience, where he was also filmed shacking hands with some Venezulean electoral officials who traveled to Peru to 'help' in this presidential election. Aside from this, there was also a speech by Chavez in national venezuelan channel where he promotes Humala's candidacy to the Peruvian presidency, and associates it with Bolivar's failed dream of the 'unified' South American States (modeled after the United States unification, but with socialistic credo). And lastly, there was a report that Ollanta Humala gave a special interview to a venezuelan news show on the day after his secured spot in the second running; something he has yet to do in Peru... the country where he is wanting to become President, and is supposedly most concerned to promote social change.
This race is becoming to nerve wrecking for my family, my peruvian friends and myself. We are in the midst of a nervous breakdown. This is either the beginning of the end of Peru, or the begining of a more hopeful future. The only thing left to do is to keep the last morsel of hope and hold on to it. We still have yet to find out the votes in the exterior since only 3% of them have been counted, as well as the 2,000 ballots in Lima that are yet to be determined by the ONPE. All is left is to just sit and wait... and keep the hope.
Basically, Ollanta Humala is in the lead of the race. With 30% of the popular votes, he has secured his place in the second running (this due to the lack of a majority vote). From a democratic perspective, this is not a good sign. He has promised to 'share the wealth' of Peru amongst the excluded population; the non-european descent population. Which ideally, it is a great concept but very unfeasible with a country like mine - Peru. Peru needs foreign investment to boost the economy, provide for more jobs and be able to remain expanding the growth that the country has been going through for the past 52 months. Having a Peru follow the Chavez-Venezulean model just brings more chaos, foreign animosity and he (Ollanta) will most likely overthrow the congress to build a new one to his favor. Thus, installing a dictatorship like Chavez did in Venezuela.
Cuba and Venezuela are not in good shape. If you believe that with an income of $12/mo, one can get by easily, well you are mistaken. I ask, plead and basically beg for all my fellow peruvians to gather people to vote for the opposing party, whoever that may be at this point. If Alan Garcia heads to the second round... (can't belive I am saying this but) please choose him; he is the less of two evils.
At 11pm (Peruvian time), Alan Garcia leads with 24.93 and Lourdes follows with 24.03. That is nine tenths of a difference and with 80% of the ballots counted. Lourdes Flores needs 91,000 votes to level out the playing field. My main questions are 1) Why on earth is Alan Garcia running again? Does he not kow what else to do with his life?) 2) Most importantly, why does he have any votes in this election?
Do people forget that easily? Or are us, Peruvians, that confused?
Do we not remember the rationing of food? Inflation? the devalue of the 'Inti' currency where people lost almost everything? the uprise of the maoist groups MRTA and Sendero Luminoso (shining path) and the beginning of their infiltration in Lima? National curfews? and the 'disappearance' of gold in the Peruvian Bank of Reserve? ... was twenty years ago such a long time ago?
In other news, I also got to cautch a glimpse of the footage of Ollanta's disgraced appearance at the University of Ricardo Palma while he was trying to cast his vote. Masses of peruvians sat outside the locale yelling and yanting, "Asesino!", "Ollanta Maricon" and "Ollanta Y Montesinos.. la misma porqueria!". I was completely distraught by seeing people yelling and literally throwing themselves against Ollanta and his wife in attemps to block their exit. I could imagine being stuck in that crowd and fainting. It was a sight to see - complete and utter chaos.
Also, some peculiar news afloated after the footage of Humala during his Ricardo Palma experience, where he was also filmed shacking hands with some Venezulean electoral officials who traveled to Peru to 'help' in this presidential election. Aside from this, there was also a speech by Chavez in national venezuelan channel where he promotes Humala's candidacy to the Peruvian presidency, and associates it with Bolivar's failed dream of the 'unified' South American States (modeled after the United States unification, but with socialistic credo). And lastly, there was a report that Ollanta Humala gave a special interview to a venezuelan news show on the day after his secured spot in the second running; something he has yet to do in Peru... the country where he is wanting to become President, and is supposedly most concerned to promote social change.
This race is becoming to nerve wrecking for my family, my peruvian friends and myself. We are in the midst of a nervous breakdown. This is either the beginning of the end of Peru, or the begining of a more hopeful future. The only thing left to do is to keep the last morsel of hope and hold on to it. We still have yet to find out the votes in the exterior since only 3% of them have been counted, as well as the 2,000 ballots in Lima that are yet to be determined by the ONPE. All is left is to just sit and wait... and keep the hope.
posted by Maria @ 7:32 PM
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Unbelievable... really outrageous. I can imagine being fooled by Ollanta but not Garcia after everything that happened during his presidency! I did read that it was mostly younger people voting for him.
I was pretty depressed when Bush won here, but Ollanta... wow. Ugh.
That Peru needs a change in the way it is governed should not be a surprise to any person with "two fingers of forehead" (i.e. with a little bit of intelligence). That Humala' speach has ears in a third of the population doesn't surprise me either (actually, I thought he would have much more), but that 25% of the population has voted for Alan... that makes me want to vomit. What has happened to the collective memory of the Peruvians?I've heard also the excuse that Alan voters are young... so what! What is being taught in our schools and universities about his administration? What about hiperinflation? What about his attempts to nationalize the financial industry and the papers, among others? What about the flourishment of terrorism? What about the international ostracism? It seems that these young people do not have parents to fill them in for what is not tought in schools. Maybe, after all, Ollanta or Alan is what Peruvians need to finally understand... Dios nos coja confesados!
you are truly a racist maria of the typical oligarchic and pro-gringo type.
how long will racist people of your kind, namely racist european descend people, continue to oppress people of color, namely mestizo and indigenous peoples?
You are your forefathers already stole indigenous land and now you want to even steal their dignity, by stealing elections away from the mestizo and indigenous campesinos?
Peru does not need foreign investment. What it needs is for oligarchic and racist types such as you and your family to leave and settle in Florida, so that true leftisy revolucion could be carried out in the nation.
South America needs 20 more Humala's, Chavezs', and Morales'. It does not need any more gringo inspired coup, Spanish oligarchic racism, imperialist and capitalist exploitation, and IMF and World Bank control!!
I am happy that your family is having a nervous breaking. They deserve it due to their oligarchic and racist nature against the indigenous and mestizo people (akak - non-white people) of Mexico, Central and South America!
Wow... Mr. Hugochavez i'm very impressed at the eloquency and your
ability to express your beliefs in the English language - the one that you despise the most!
To be honest, you have absolutely no idea who I am and what I stand for.. I welcome your racist thoughts not only because they remind me of the ignorance of others (like yours) but also because they make me appreciate my time and education.
Time in a sense that, I am not the one typing away and leaving hateful comments on the blogs of others instead of helping out your beautiful country of Venezuela, and secondly, my education because even though you may think that there is a parallel between 'democracy' and 'oppression', I see that I have more freedoms and ability to grow as a person internally and economically in the U.S more so than in Venezuela.
Lastly, How dare you state that I have no indigenous blood in me??
I do. In fact, my family derived from the deep jungle of Peru. I have indio blood in me more than you could ever wish upon you. My mother grew up with no modern amenities (the ones that I highly doubt you have experienced during your so-called 'oppressed' life. And I bet that you enjoy more perks and amenities as a dictator of a Third World country than more than 90% of the habitants of a thrird world country.
So I suggest that you eat your words, spread your venom someplace else instead of my blog (since my views are so detrimental to preservation of socialism) and be aware that Karma is a BITCH my friend. You, wishing illfate upon my family is basically casting a miserable life upon yourself.
And that my friend, is more sad and pathetic than the downfall of MY country.
ohh one more thing... Despite the fact that you have shown how cowardly you are by signing under such a historic name of Hugo Chavez and completely placed shame on not only his name but also his credo.... I feel sorry for you.
I feel sorry for you because you obviously carry more troubles than meets the eye, and at the end of the each day I can peacefully go to sleep at night... and that is priceless.
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wow... King Chavez, the soon-to-be heroic ruler of Latin America, gave you the honor of visiting your blog :-)))
And I thought he was too busy these days accusing the Netherlands of preparing/providing the launching pad for a US invasion of his Reich.
I don't mind people posting different opinions, it's the basics for a healthy discussion.
But if some troll comes along and insults you and your family, then just delete it. He's not worth it.
Miss Maria and all you gringo lovers on this website.
First of all, Ollanta Humala is a true and a great leader, just as I am the greatest and most humane leader in Latin America.
The greatest leader from Africa is Robert Mugabe.
Me, Ollanta, Mugabe, Evo Morales, and the spirit of brother and comrade Juan Velasco from Peru will ensure that racist oligarchic and imperialist loving peoples start to share their wealth.
So this is how it will work:
If you own 3 farms, we will take 2 farms and 50% of the other one and give it to the campesinos.
If you only pay 5% tax and also in most years avoid paying tax through dubious means, then we will tax you at 60% of your income, and you will have to pay back taxes for those years, when you cheated the people and RAZA!
If you side up with the imperialist gringos and the racist oligarchy, we will ask you to go and settle in Miami, Florida, like all of those racist and selfish Cuban oligarchy (God bless Comrade Castro!)
You are just a few and we represent the millions of RAZA of latin america.
Most importantly, as you are a pure blooded descendant of the raist conquistador, we will ask you to please if you do not like the politics and leftism in Latin America, than go back to Spain or Portugal, which the are nations, which caused the death of so many innocent millions (100 million Native American peoples in the Americas) and 40 million black peoples (half of whom were shockingly and brutally died enroute from Africa, and the rest to work as slaves in European owned haciendas and fazendas - farms).
You may not that indigenous, mestizo, black, and mulatto people were not even allowed to vote until very recently in all of North, Central, and South America.
We were not even considered as humans. The CIVIL RIGHTS movement is a testamony to that 514 years of vicious oppression of colored peoples in the US.
Furthermore, while European people got large amounts of land, which was stolen from native american peoples, the indigenous peoples were herded like cattle into tiny reservations with the worst and most unproductive land.
OUR Black brothers and sisters were beaten, lynched, enslaved and bought and sold in the market.
OUR asian brothers and sisters were forced to work in the railway lines and we were treated like animals.
You racism and anti-stance toward justice seeking and people loving and honest leaders like Martin Luther King (USA), Cesar Chavez (USA), Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lazaro Cardenas (Mexico), Lopez Obrador (Mexico), Ollanta Humala (Peru), Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua), Juan Velasco (Peru), Pancho Villa (Mexico), Omar Torrijos (Panama), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Mao Tse Tung (China), Comrade Lenin (Soviet Union), and Brother Castro (Cuba) is truly shocking, racist, pro-capitalist, pro-imperialist, pro-white supremacy, and anti-indigenous and anti-mestizo and anti-black and anti-mulatto and anti-other non-white peoples.
Miss Maria and all you gringo lovers on this website.
First of all, Ollanta Humala is a true and a great leader, just as I am the greatest and most humane leader in Latin America.
The greatest leader from Africa is Robert Mugabe.
Me, Ollanta, Mugabe, Evo Morales, and the spirit of brother and comrade Juan Velasco from Peru will ensure that racist oligarchic and imperialist loving peoples start to share their wealth.
So this is how it will work:
If you own 3 farms, we will take 2 farms and 50% of the other one and give it to the campesinos.
If you only pay 5% tax and also in most years avoid paying tax through dubious means, then we will tax you at 60% of your income, and you will have to pay back taxes for those years, when you cheated the people and RAZA!
If you side up with the imperialist gringos and the racist oligarchy, we will ask you to go and settle in Miami, Florida, like all of those racist and selfish Cuban oligarchy (God bless Comrade Castro!)
You are just a few and we represent the millions of RAZA of latin america.
Most importantly, as you are a pure blooded descendant of the raist conquistador, we will ask you to please if you do not like the politics and leftism in Latin America, than go back to Spain or Portugal, which the are nations, which caused the death of so many innocent millions (100 million Native American peoples in the Americas) and 40 million black peoples (half of whom were shockingly and brutally died enroute from Africa, and the rest to work as slaves in European owned haciendas and fazendas - farms).
You may not that indigenous, mestizo, black, and mulatto people were not even allowed to vote until very recently in all of North, Central, and South America.
We were not even considered as humans. The CIVIL RIGHTS movement is a testamony to that 514 years of vicious oppression of colored peoples in the US.
Furthermore, while European people got large amounts of land, which was stolen from native american peoples, the indigenous peoples were herded like cattle into tiny reservations with the worst and most unproductive land.
OUR Black brothers and sisters were beaten, lynched, enslaved and bought and sold in the market.
OUR asian brothers and sisters were forced to work in the railway lines and we were treated like animals.
You racism and anti-stance toward justice seeking and people loving and honest leaders like Martin Luther King (USA), Cesar Chavez (USA), Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lazaro Cardenas (Mexico), Lopez Obrador (Mexico), Ollanta Humala (Peru), Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua), Juan Velasco (Peru), Pancho Villa (Mexico), Omar Torrijos (Panama), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Mao Tse Tung (China), Comrade Lenin (Soviet Union), and Brother Castro (Cuba) is truly shocking, racist, pro-capitalist, pro-imperialist, pro-white supremacy, and anti-indigenous and anti-mestizo and anti-black and anti-mulatto and anti-other non-white peoples.
Whatever...get over it...that was 500 years ago. Who the heck wants to live in a socialist, oppressive country? I would rather have freedom of speech and religion, and yes, capitalism (and the right to earn as much as I am able to)...then have my mind and thoughts suppressed.
AND, DO NOT INCLUDE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., in the same company as Castro, Mao Tse Tung, etc. Yikes...
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too bad you don't post any more.
Hope the little Chavez troll wasn't the only reason for your silence.
tu amigo
interesting to see blatent latin racism against whites especially at a time when your heroes like Lopez Obrador is the one labling the gringos as racist
how do you say hypocrites in Spanish?
HIPOCRITAS!!!
.. :)
not silenced yet.. just quiet for awhile, but i will come back screaming, i promise.
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