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03/10/2006:

"Peru's dynasty-in-waiting prepares to deliver another anti-US president"

One of Latin America's most extraordinary political families is poised to produce another of the continent's Left-wing authoritarian leaders with no love for Washington.

Ollanta Humala is one of two favourites to become Peru's next president, a role for which, to believe his mother, he has been groomed from birth.


Ollanta Humala: ‘I am a nationalist and anti-imperialist’
"We have been preparing our children to take power since they were born," Elena Tasso has said of her eight progeny. "If the boys are not successful this time, then it will be the turn of the girls."

In fact two of her sons, Ollanta and Ulises, are standing as rivals in next month's presidential election and a third, Antauro, is running for parliament.

Faced with not one but two sons to support, the head of the family, Isaac, backs Ulises.

But the father's real enthusiasm is for the eccentric philosophy of "Etnocacerismo".

This racist creed, which Isaac founded, calls on indigenous Americans, whom he calls "coppers", to take on the "whites", and their sidekicks the "blacks", and keep the "yellows" at a safe distance.

"Isaac Humala should be investigated by child care agencies," said a former interior minister, Fernando Rospigliosi. "God only knows what he put into his children's heads during their formative years."
telegraph.co.uk

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Friday, March 10th, 3 posted:

""The new world struggle is not between the Left and the Right, it is between the globalisers and the globalised and Peru falls into the latter category," he said."

* see, now they get it - us North Americans are still caught up in the master's discourse.