The battle for Lima
writes: Antonio Romero Reyes
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| PHOTO: Juvenal Luna |
Much has been discussed on the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate for mayor of Lima, Ms.. Susana Villaran, as do familiar characters who defend it (ie: Jaime Bayly, Pedro Salinas) or feverishly attack (Cecilia Valenzuela Aldo Mariátegui) in their media. This public debate around the individual leads to the separation of the individual, an outstanding woman in this case, the organization behind it (Social Forces) and his politics. Even comments like César Hildebrandt ("4 questions to decide the vote") go in this direction, in spite of it. The electoral environment that we live is such that in the upcoming municipal elections (and possibly in the presidential elections of 2011), most people will vote for smiling faces and people who "sit well" rather than by consistent approaches. But for critics, when the character-contextualizes the subject of comments, in a strictly political approach, is to impute the "error" committed "to these critics, by allying with a party as" Patria Roja (PR) through a classification created by this (the Movimiento Nueva Izquierda, MNI), disqualified and demonized by the right media and by government order.
stumped Kouri of competition, not for ethical reasons and reasons of "moral cleansing" but legal formalities, which nobody expected, Lourdes Flores was the "eternal candidate" on the right and center-right. The problem was that media revelations concerning his ties to "professional services" with a character who is being investigated drug trafficking, caused the crack front right. Had ceased to be the consensus candidate to happen to Kouri. There are to ratify the exchange of words caliber, exchanged between her and Alan Garcia, but the latter was commissioned to heal in recent statements openly showing "favoritism" to Flores Nano, courtesy of this appreciation, thus indicating that this right everything works out with "good words." However, it is more interesting to observe the transfer of voting intentions and voting preferences of voters potanciales of Kouri and away to Villa Flores Nano as expected with some logic. Results of a survey released these days, they account for 15% recovery of Villarán candidate in one month, placing second with 27% of preferences and only 6 points away from Flores Nano. This shows that any expectation based on pure logical moves in the air, on pure speculation. The cargamontón against Villa persists, and do so incisively on its side apparently more vulnerable: the alliance, more pragmatic than political, with "Red Patria" for pandering to scare potential voters with the bogeyman of "terrorism", including through the demonization of the "symbols" of the Left (greetings with raised arm and hand making fist), simply because of the symbol is also pictures of a dark character like Abimael Guzman and Shining Path followers in their heyday (the years of violence experienced by Peru in the last decades of twentieth century).
stumped Kouri of competition, not for ethical reasons and reasons of "moral cleansing" but legal formalities, which nobody expected, Lourdes Flores was the "eternal candidate" on the right and center-right. The problem was that media revelations concerning his ties to "professional services" with a character who is being investigated drug trafficking, caused the crack front right. Had ceased to be the consensus candidate to happen to Kouri. There are to ratify the exchange of words caliber, exchanged between her and Alan Garcia, but the latter was commissioned to heal in recent statements openly showing "favoritism" to Flores Nano, courtesy of this appreciation, thus indicating that this right everything works out with "good words." However, it is more interesting to observe the transfer of voting intentions and voting preferences of voters potanciales of Kouri and away to Villa Flores Nano as expected with some logic. Results of a survey released these days, they account for 15% recovery of Villarán candidate in one month, placing second with 27% of preferences and only 6 points away from Flores Nano. This shows that any expectation based on pure logical moves in the air, on pure speculation. The cargamontón against Villa persists, and do so incisively on its side apparently more vulnerable: the alliance, more pragmatic than political, with "Red Patria" for pandering to scare potential voters with the bogeyman of "terrorism", including through the demonization of the "symbols" of the Left (greetings with raised arm and hand making fist), simply because of the symbol is also pictures of a dark character like Abimael Guzman and Shining Path followers in their heyday (the years of violence experienced by Peru in the last decades of twentieth century).
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have realized, wisely (and not least to speak) media personalities such as Jaime Bayly, Pedro Salinas and others. Also César Hildebrandt. Why should then the interest of a sector of journalism-less corny and cave, more "progressive" - \u200b\u200bby Susan Villarán catapult as a national political figure, not only electorally speaking? There is implicit recognition that the right native ran out of political figure, also the ideas. Alan García is the last thing they have left, but everyone knows what to defend or promote interests and who represents. The new breed of leaders who have emerged from this political space, some of which are candidates for mayor, grew and matured influenced by historical and social contexts experienced by Peru in the years of fujimorato. Essentially, they are people pragmatic policy whose decisions are guided by the economic technocrats. See politics through the blinders "universalist" governing academic economics. In this sense, any view which might draw on the social processes and structural change is a function primarily of property, investments and markets, in this order, and the "progress" material that realization of these "universal" supposed to bring in terms of capitalist development in the country. Express the thought that this new generation of leaders and what we represent leaders in the next sentence, pronounced something like in a TV debate: "To govern the economy right hand and meet the social with the left hand." The economy, alienated by the neoliberalism of any democratic political control (not to be confused easily with statism), but in addition to any requirement of social democratization (relative to labor, resources and products, property rights, among others) is the "new" philosophy contained in that postmodern thinking. In the background, and in the field of political discussion, is rather one of the ways it manifests the coloniality of knowledge.
ideological Right as manifested in the opinion of Mario Vargas Llosa, wants, demands and claims the presence of a "democratic left", because the space of center-left in Peru, no a political actor representing him, and to make the necessary counterweight to the neoliberal hegemony in public affairs and governance in general, where good manners prevail and democratic forms. The main references of the promoters of this "modern left" are leading to convergence Chilean president Michelle Bachelet of Chile, or experience gained from the municipal government levels Frente Amplio in Uruguay, under the leadership of Tavaré Vásquez. In other words, as has happened in these countries, model, what is desired is a spayed left any hint of socialism transformer and unassuming revolutionary, and it is assimilated to the fees that operating formally democratic capital as a ratio power. Therein lies the meaning of the phrase "democratic socialism." Does this game provide Mrs. Susana Villaran and Social Front, PR Included? Whether she or any other political force, it is clear that the right seeks to "left."
Per contrary, we hold that the reestablishment of the left in Peru, even more of a socialist tradition in the latter country, truncated after the death of José Carlos Mariategui, so that be authentic, must be born and rooted from below, in their own sectors. The potential of this strategic represent true "radical change" (full circle) with respect to what has been the traditional way of relating to those areas and to build political organization, usually vertically (the party-garde and " consciousness class "as externalities imposed without necessarily address the real social interests and aspirations). We say this because the struggle for change and transformation has to happen from within, not outside the system.
do not believe that the popular sectors are "pure and perfect" as it is naive to assume liberalism with respect to the market economy, even more so now that is highlighted and is waving to the four winds of entrepreneurship those same sectors. Enthusiasm for easy carrying and immediately evidence that the phenomenon is assimilated and merged with the idea of \u200b\u200b"progress." There should be a debate over background of these issues.
The bet that we mean that these sectors are popular subjects, and therefore no longer be targets, the construction of alternatives. Did you ever read? This has not been resolved with pure pragmatism. The "battle for Lima" has connotations then more complex and deeper than the eye can gaze electoral cyclical and over who would win.
Lima, September 9, 2010 ----------------------------------
-------------------- 1 / Aldo Mariátegui is editor of the daily Correo, recalcitrant neoliberal considered "intelligent" by an admirer (Jaime Bayly dixit on one of their TV shows), his writing style is usually casual while arrogant authoritarian when it does wasting bile (usually daily), to the delight of its readers. Readers of ALAI, and who know what we offer here only two tiny beads that reflect the thought of this champion of the most rancid nihilism Creole, vulgar and despicable. On the occasion of the expulsion of foreign religious branded as troublemakers, "It does very well government made a strong turn to these foreign priests dedicated to agitate the provincial rural populations. The country has given permission to reside here in order to conduct their religious activities, not to come and fuck. These extremists abuse the power generated by its endowment to almost magical ignorant masses and they throw gasoline on the conflict instead of seeking appeasement and dialogue. "(Courier, July 5). His most trenchant views have focused recently on Susana Villaran. Thus, "Vote for Susan Villarán is putting his entire NGO red collar and caviar to the municipality for blood with multiple useless 'consultants' and capture the administrative apparatus. [...] Vote for Villarán to revive a dying rojerío retrograde camouflaged under a sheepskin 'posh aunt. " Let's not be jerks! "(Mail, August 23).
2 / Luis Castañeda, the current metropolitan mayor, announced a few days ago who resigned on 10 October to become the presidential candidate six months in advance as provided by law.
3 / "The candidate for mayor of Pepecar Lima, Lourdes Flores, reiterated that whoever wins the mayor should become a democratic ally of the government and welcomed the statement of President Alan Garcia, who offered their support in the event wins the October 3 elections ... "La Primera, Lima , September 8, 2010, p. 4.
4 / We refer to the "Opinion Survey in Maharashtra", held in the month, the Public Opinion Institute of the Pontificia Universidad Católica.
5 / "The APRA not vote for Lourdes Flores or by Susana Villarán or for any other candidate for the Municipality of Lima. We have agreed that the vote will be blank and only elect for district candidates. "Mauricio Mulder Statements, APRA bank spokesman in Congress, as reflected in diario16, Lima, September 8, 2010, p. 6.
6 / Patricio Salvatierra, "Panorama election in southern Lima. Choose our tormentors for four years. " Voz Alta, Villa El Salvador, www.vozaltaperu.blogspot.com
7 / Under this context, we disagree also respectable opinion of opposition journalist and long career as Caesar Lévano: "Evident is that the Left wins presence with Susana Villaran. You can be the prelude to a broader phenomenon, and as expected: the triumph of the left in most regions (and the overwhelming defeat of APRA in all). "First, September 8, 2010, p. 2. Lévano has said, "can be."
8 / Boaventura de Souza Santos,-founding the State in Latin America. Perspectives from an epistemology of the South. Lima: International Institute for Law and Society - Democracy and Global Transformation Programme, 2010, p. 55.
9 / "After a century we can say that the denials of liberal democracy would now call socialism and fascism, not democracy face from outside but from within. Liberal democracy is now in force in most of the continent and within it the forces of socialism and the forces of fascism face. The struggles of socialist potential vocation or manifest themselves in the process of radicalization of democracy, participatory democracy, community and cultural, of the democratization of access to land, the redistribution of operating income from natural resources for promoting development alternatives, such as the good life (the sum Sumak Kawsay or Qamaña), or the denial of separation between society and nature, conceived as Mother Earth (Pachamama) . '(de Souza Santos, op. cit., p. 56).
10 / See p. eg. the July opinion article Schiappa, "What about Ollanta Humala?" In http://vozperuana.blogspot.com (July 17, 2010)
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