Peru
Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
The move towards fascism of the Ollanta Humala regime
After four years of Ollanta Humala’s regime, the move towards fascism
has been accelerating by implementing the policy of looting and
destruction of the country. Other governments on the continent are
carrying out the same model: Mexico, Colombia and Chile, members of the
Pacific Alliance, recently met within the framework of the UN General
Assembly, in New York. This openly demonstrates that these governments
are puppets, and that they do not care about world public opinion,
which sees that these governments are betraying their people and
subjecting them to the world's richest. The Ecuadorian government of
Rafael Correa is marching in the same direction, practicing an ever
more repressive policy, handing over the natural resources and carrying
out privatization.
During these four years, Ollanta Humala’s regime has done nothing other
than apply the same plan signed by Alberto Fujimori 25 years ago,
called the "letter of intent" to the IMF, in which it undertakes to
implement a plan for handing over all natural resources. For this it
had to eliminate all the rights won by the peasant and indigenous
communities and the rights of the peoples and nationalities, of the
working masses, students, teachers, etc. The plan was initiated with
two aspects:
1. The implementation of a plan of mass annihilation and "ethnic
cleansing" developed by the Maoist gang "Sendero Luminoso" [“Shining
Path”] in conjunction with the army for two decades since 1980. The
Peruvian people were subjected to two fires. Thousands of peasant,
teacher, student, etc. leaders were killed, tens of thousands of
neighborhood residents were eliminated and millions of Peruvians fled
from their communal lands, leading to depopulation in order to leave
the natural resources: gold, silver, copper, etc., at the mercy of the
capitalist gangs. Shining Path applied the Maoist policy of allying
with the U.S. in order to defeat the other powers; this same policy
served to support the coup d’état of Pinochet.
2. The approval, under threat of death, of the Fujimori Constitution of
1993, obviously after the coup by Fujimori on April 5, 1992. This
Constitution legalized the seizure of communal territories that were
protected by property titles which could not be taken away as
guaranteed by the Constitution of 1979. A committee of members of our
party participated in the drafting of this Constitution, fulfilling the
agreements of the mass assemblies and struggles carried out for
decades. In its response to the historic national strike of July 19,
1977, the government established the legal framework for privatizing
education, health care and public services such as electricity,
drinking water and social security. According to the letter of intent
this plan should have been completed by 2020. In this way the deadlines
were shortened. The intermediary bourgeoisie subjected to imperialism
and organized under the CONFIEP [National Confederation of Private
Enterprise Institutions] pressured the governments in office to
implement this plan to the letter. Despite the protests of the Peruvian
people, despite all the threats and the fact that we were able to oust
the satrap Fujimori in 2000, the subsequent governments deceived the
masses. They said that they would change the constitution, but they did
nothing but follow the same Fujimori plan including the "transitional
government” of Valentin Paniagua Corazao. Toledo, Alan Garcia (APRA)
and the current government of Ollanta Humala do nothing other than make
more laws that are increasingly harmful to the people. At the end of
the Toledo regime, U.S. imperialism imposed the Free Trade Agreement
(FTA) with the U.S. During the campaign, then-candidate Alan Garcia
made a public commitment to review word for word the FTA signed by the
sell-out Toledo and his minister PPK [Pedro Pablo Kuczynski]. Once in
office Alan Garcia not only preserved it but the first thing he did was
to travel to the U.S. to kneel before Bush, the U.S. president at that
time. Toledo signed the law to support capitalist investment in the
communal territories based on the Fujimori constitution, called the
"law to promote private investment." Alan Garcia kept that law and
signed other, supplementary ones, such as Decree 1096, of order to fire
on the people, signed the law of "public teaching career" to evaluate
teachers and subject them to dismissal. The teachers' struggle led to
the law not being applied. The military-mining regime of Ollanta Humala
has as prominent representatives the same ones who were at the order of
Montesinos (of the CIA) during the Fujimori decade at the end of the
last century. These include Urresti, accused of the murder of
journalist Bustios; Colonel Villafuerte, also a member of the sinister
SIN [National Intelligence Service]; recycled elements of the Velasco
regime such as Lerner, the prime minister in the first year of Humala.
Lerner was unmasked when he tried to impose the Conga project in
Cajamarca with fire and sword, apparently supported by talks with
Patria Roja which headed the regional government of Cajamarca according
to undisputed statements of the same Lerner. Lerner was succeeded as
prime minister by a prominent member of the Fujimori government.
Furthermore, the economic portfolio was held by Miguel Castilla,
representative of the IMF who is well-known in the U.S. today as the
ambassador from Peru, forming a power structure orchestrated by the
U.S. Embassy that is more repressive each day. During these two
decades, the masses, mainly the peasants, have maintained their firm
opposition to the mining concessions, with the uprising of the people
of Tambogrande in Piura at the beginning of this century when more than
50,000 people from Piura rose up in struggle and took over the
facilities of Manhattan Mining, forcing the repressive forces to flee
and thus making the Canadian company withdraw. Although the concession
has not been canceled, so far the mining company has not dared to
resume activities. The struggle of the people of Cajamarca took place
under the guidance of the historic experience of the people of Piura.
However, this time, the military-mining regime of Humala is
implementing increasingly repressive laws, such as Law 30151, giving
orders to kill so that the police can shoot knowing that they will not
be punished. Under this law there took place the murder in cold blood
of Cajamarca citizen Fidel Flores, who opposed being evicted from his
own home. Applying the law, the police shot and killed him without any
of the criminals being punished, although they were all fully
identified. There was only the light sentence for "disobeying orders"
within the military regime, that is, without a judicial authority. This
was carried out by then Interior Minister Daniel Urresti, who is today
a possible candidate of Humala’s party for the presidency of Peru.
During the last two years, the Humala regime has enacted the law on
"teaching reform" and "university reform" in order to privatize
education. He issued Decree 001-2015 [of the Ministry of Energy and
Mines], under which more facilities are being given over to the
capitalists for them to gain concessions on the backs of the owners,
the rural inhabitants and the indigenous peoples.
Even earlier, in 2012, he had already made Law 29785 of "prior
referendum" that ignores the binding nature of the prior referendum.
That is, if the people say no, the law says that it reserves the
concession so that the company can hold more informational workshops
until the "campaign for public awareness" bears fruit. And if that does
not work now it provides that the signature of just two or three
directors is needed for the concession to be valid, even if the rest of
the villagers oppose it.
The Arrival of the U.S. Military
By a resolution of Congress this year, foreign armed forces are
authorized to establish elite forces in order to conduct exercises and
maneuvers inside the country. Thus 3,600 U.S. troops have begun to set
themselves up in the communal territories as an open threat to the
people's struggles. In this context the Peruvian people held a national
day of protest last July 9, despite the betrayal by the revisionists of
Mario Huaman and Patria Roja. Throughout the length and breadth of the
country great days of protest were held, declaring an indefinite strike.
The military-mining regime of Ollanta Humala is moving towards fascism.
The repressive offensive can be seen in the 30 selective assassinations
committed by the Humala regime during these four years, aimed at the
people in struggle. This week there were four more murders in the
region of Abancay, as part of the struggle of the people against the
mining project "Las Bambas" pushed through under the regime of Toledo –
PPK. Hundreds were wounded by bullets, many of them with irreversible
consequences; this is the result of the political repression so far.
And the count rises every day throughout Peru. Only the popular unity,
only the people organized can oppose this. This is the present task of
the Marxist-Leninist communists as we move to demarcation with
Trotskyism and Maoism, harmful currents that have demobilized and are
the right arm of imperialism who infiltrate themselves among the masses.
The other arm is Shining Path. The press is trying to revive it by
making people believe that the struggles of the masses are the work of
Shining Path. And many fraternal parties swallow this information as we
have seen in Mexico, where the Sendero Maoists have managed to make
people believe that Shining Path is leading the struggles of the
Peruvian people, when it is quite the contrary. Shining Path is the
armed counter-revolution.
The Electoral Scene
In this context imperialism is preparing the successor of the Humala
regime, which has fallen into disgrace due to its unconcealed betrayal
and corruption. New evidence appears every day against Nadine, the wife
of Humala, but the alliance with APRA and Fujimori will once again lead
to impunity, with the complaints coming to nothing with the complicity
of the judicial power.
Surveys show that 80% of the Peruvians reject the candidates of
neoliberal continuity. All of them have already ruled. Alan Garcia,
Toledo – PPK, Urresti and Keiko Fujimori are fighting over the sad role
of maintaining this colonizing system under the reign of terror,
corruption and fascism. There is desperation among the right-wing.
Meanwhile the popular sectors in struggle do not feel represented by
the more than 10 political movements that have achieved the right to
appear on the ballot.
Our Party has no ballot status. In this context we are evaluating an
alliance with a group that would ensure the inclusion in its program of
certain points to confront fascism: a new Constitution, the abolition
of the laws criminalizing protests, the cancellation of concessions
that do not have the support of the respective consultation (which the
mining law itself recognizes), environmental protection, respect for
human rights, respect for labor rights, respect for national
sovereignty and the exercise of the right to free self-determination of
the peoples. So far progress has been made with a front under the
orientation of democratic elections that would allow the possibility of
presenting candidates to the lists in addition to the above program.
Demarcation with Revisionism
Considering that imperialism has maneuvered strongly in world public
opinion, taking as its basis the attack on Comrade Stalin, and that
this has permeated even many revolutionaries who understand the
strategic task of the dictatorship of the proletariat, we propose that
the conference develop an ideological mobilization in defense of Stalin.
Long live the PCP ML!
Long live Marxism-Leninism!
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