Disastrous, really. What this will likely mean is more rape of the land by foreign (1st world) corporations, decline of labor rights, decline of Indigenous rights and decline of democracy itself, with the threat of far worse--fascism, persecution of the poor and the left, torture, murder.

We need to do some research on why Ollanta Humala has no successor, and what of leaders who are to the left of him (anti-free trade for the rich)?

spectacularly ignorant of what has been going on in Peru, even as Fujimori conducted massacres, mass sterilizations of indigenous Inca women, which horrified and shocked the population, leaving these women grief-stricken for the rest of their lives, Alan Garcia had his military massacre indigenous Peruvians during his first term of office, through heart-breaking treachery, and barbarism, then, in his 2nd term, in 2009, as we remember, he had his military and police fly over indigenous Amazonian people who were demonstrating against his appropriation of their ancestral lands to sell to oil companies, shooting down at them from helicopters, then when they tried to escape on the highway, he had the road blocked with his military with AKM rifles. Not a fair treatment, considering the men of Bagua only were carrying poles and spears as a show of strength.

So ####ing sad. Photos were grotesque.

They have effectively killed the Peruvian left, it would appear.

After seeing your comments, I will try harder to keep my eyes open for anything which might throw some light upon this subject which they apparently feel we shouldn't understand, but still keep financing with our tax dollars. More weapons, more war machines, more free trade with Peru's oligarchy, and we really should shut the #### up, as they see it!

http://www.ibtimes.com/peruvian-president-sees-popularity-drop-after-mine-protest-clashes-1927280

Peruvian President Sees Popularity Drop After Mine Protest Clashes


Peruvian President Ollanta Humala’s approval rating fell sharply this month in the wake of mass protests against a controversial mining project in the country’s south. The president’s popularity dropped to 21 percent in May, his lowest rating in a year.

It’s a six-point drop from Humala’s approval rating in April, according to Ipsos Peru, the research firm that conducted the nationwide survey. The president, already facing pressure from the country’s economic slowdown and a corruption probe against the first lady, Nadine Heredia, is also seeing the political fallout from tumultuous protests in the southern city of Cocachacra and surrounding cities. Protesters, primarily farmers in southern Peru, are rallying against a $1.4 billion mining project, known as Tia Maria, saying the mine would contaminate water sources and damage their crops.

The protests have been going on since March, and clashes between police and protesters since then have left three dead and more than 200 injured. Last week President Humala sent government troops to quell the unrest. But protests have continued on, with clashes between demonstrators and police last Thursday resulting in 12 injuries. On Friday the Southern Copper Corp., the Mexican company that owns the Tia Maria mine, proposed suspending the project for 60 days to allow for dialogue.

A joint survey conducted by Ipsos Peru and Peru’s El Comercio newspaper found that 40 percent of respondents blamed the government for violence in the protests, while 35 percent blamed protest leaders. According to the poll, opinions were divided over the project itself: 46 percent of those who knew about the mining operation supported it, while 43 percent disapproved.

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Here are some reasons for Humala's unpopularity as opposed to that gibberish in the other response
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1108&pid=44472

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The bit about "that gibberish in the other response" was pretty uncalled for.

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You should learn some polite manners from the LatAm motormouth.

Posting some information so that people will not be "in the dark" and shedding some "light" on the Humala/Fujimori situation instead of posting nonsense doesn't seem to be appreciated much.

The “Fascist Threat” on Peru’s Doorstep
By Raúl Zibechi | 25 / May / 2011

“The instructions to donors are to bring two packages of rice, two tins of tuna, a package of sugar, a can of soup, and a package of biscuits in a transparent bag. Volunteers put orange stickers with a K for Keiko Fujimori on the bags”. This accusation of vote-buying with food donated by the upper class ladies of Lima wasn’t made by a leftist Peruvian newspaper, but rather, by Madrid’s conservative El Mundo.

The writer asserts that the campaign is using the same methods of “welfare populism” used by the ex-president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year

functions before the arrival of the candidate.

The coordinator of the Mothers Clubs, Rosa Castillo, said that this has always been the style of the Fujimori campaigns: “PRONAA (the National Food Assistance Program) was a bastion of president Fujimori and distributed food for political use”[2]. Historian Nelson Manrique told El Mundo that by the end of the Fujimori government in 1999, some nine million Peruvians had been fed through help from the State and today there are a million and a half that eat in comedores populares (places where the poor can eat a good meal at a fair price).

El Mundo also reports that food is collected at the home of Jeannette Wolfenson de Stone in San Isidro, an elegant neighbourhood in the capital. Wolfenson de Stone is the sister of Moisés and Alex Wolfenson, who was convicted of fraud and the sale of the La Razón, El Chino, and El Men newspapers to Vladimiro Montesinos[3]. Her brother-in-law, James Stone, convicted of arms trafficking, was a business partner of Montesinos and owner of a group of companies that monopolized the supply of war materials during Fujimori’s administration[4].

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Despite it all, including that the country was governed for a decade under the authoritarian and dictatorial rule of her father, it is probable that Keiko will win the election on June 5th and become president. Why are half of Peruvians likely to vote for the Fujimoris? I believe that there are three basic reasons: the extractive economic model; the fact that Peru is a disputed territory for American hegemonic power in South America; and the fact that Peru’s poor democracy is betrayed by corrupt leadership. Let’s examine these three characteristics, in that order.

More:
http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/4642

(My bolding, final paragraph.)