File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1997/97-02-15.234, message 7


Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:21:00 GMT
From: Hariette Spierings <hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk>
Subject: M-G: SURREALIST MRTA/FUJIMORI CIRCUS MOVES TO LONDON 


IMPERIAL SURREALISM

London, February 10th, 1997


A surrealist atmosphere pervades the West Coast of South America.  In
Ecuador, the apprentice Fujimori of that country - Abdala Bucaram - is
forced to flee to Guayaquil and abandon his capital while the entire country
demands he is thrown out into a Lunatic Asylum.  

Meanwhile the MRTA action in seizing the Japanese embassy in Lima has now
degenerated openly into the reactionary pro-imperialist circus which it
always was, despite the silly naivete among some people in the left who fell
for the insidious Fujimori/CIA/FBI propaganda presenting this action as
"Anti-imperialist in Character" (see the New Flag publication sponsored by
the bogus "MPP-USA" engendered by the US imperialists and the Fujimori
National Intelligence Service).

Yesterday I pointed out that this suppossedly "anti-imperialist action" had
now turned into a institutionalised red herring being used by the
dictatorship and imperialism to pull the wool over people's eyes to such an
extent that the MRTA carnival now included "birthday Mariachi music for
Fujimori hostage/potentates played by guitar wielding erzast Mexican
ranchers singing under the MRTA's bolt-hole's balconies, amusement park
stalls doing thriving business along side the neighbouring street to the
embassy grounds, and American Businessmen tourist buses having the "MRTA
SEIGE SIGHTSEEING TOUR" as an obliged attraction stop in their Lima
itineraries.  Finally, like for example yesterday, Fujimori's own elderly
mum drove aboard a bullet proof limousine to come visit the seige and bring
them cakes and baskets of fruits, etc.."

Since the Japanese Emperors' birthday party they so rudely interrupted seems
to be already well advanced into the process of re-starting after that
nail-biting interval, the only thing now needed is that all the other guests
done their party togas anew, a new supply of Champagne and canapes is
provided, and just all - including now the MRTA - to carry on celebrating
the imperialist ransacking of Peru since everyone is so happy.  Is it not
right to ask about these people:  Are these ANTI-IMPERIALISTS FIGHTERS OR
VULGAR GATE CRASHERS AT THE IMPERIAL FEAST?

MRTA HAS NOW A NEW AMBASSADOR CUM ROAD SHOW MANAGER:

On arriving in London yesterday, Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori openly
revealed his new role as the new "ambassador/road show manager for the MRTA"
and practically has turned himself into the chief apologist for his new
partners in this "dialogue" aimed at - in Fujimori's own words -
"maintaining and reinforcing the stability of the state".    

In London, the dictator expressed that one of the principal motives of his
trip was to "find a country that would give asylum to the MRTA group".  This
group - in the words of Domingo Palermo - Fujimori's Minister and chief
negotiator - is unsurprisingly enough by now, the very group headed by "Don
Nestor" Cerpa Cartolini now holding 73 "guests" at the Japanese ambassadors'
residence in Lima, but shortly billed to appear as an star attraction at a
venue (or country of asylum) near you!.  Now, Mr. Fujimori has found his
vocation in trying to convince other countries to take his self generated
problems off his broken back. 

In requesting that the MRTA group be given political asylum, Fujimori, of
course, is contradicting his formerly stated position about the MRTA not
being guerillas, but terrorists.  Apparently, and since he is now engaged
openly in the business of looking for a country to give the MRTA group
political asylum, he is in fact saying that they are after all guerilla
fighters and not terrorists!

Technically, the dictator has already run afoul of his own laws regarding
apology for terrorists and should be up against one of his own "faceless"
military tribunals being condemned to life imprisonment and to pay 5 billion
US dollars compensation as an "ambassador and chief apologist for the MRTA".

THE BROKE SEEKING ALMS FROM THE UNDONE

In visiting London, Fujimori has thrown himself at the feet of the most
discredited political bunch in power anywhere in the world. The Major
regime, which is already in its last legs, and therefore in no position to
say no to such an embarrasing visitor, lest worse soundbites are found by
their political oponents.  The Peruvian dictator, however, has totally
missed the point of the London business gathering he has billed back in Peru
as an "excercise in reassuring the international investors".  The LILA (or
Link into Latin America) is to showcase Britain as a suppossed gateway for
business (and investment) flowing from Latin America INTO Europe.  

Come to think of it, and since his partners of the MRTA cannot hold out the
fort for them for ever without totally boring the punters, that IS precisely
what Fujimori and his cortege of robber barons (who, in typical Latin
American Somoza style dictator's gang, have already made substantial
billions) are in fact looking for a safe haven to bring their ill gotten and
drug tainted funds to safety, while in fact fishing for eventual political
asylum for themselves.      
To add to the surrealist atmosphere, The Times saluted the eve of Fujimori's
arrival by dubbing him a "dictator" and berating "his barbaric and medieval
dungeons".  The next day, after the dictator reminded the British that
"Peruvian prisons are built in accordance with international standards for
terrorists" and journalists were reminded of Mr. Howard, Major's Home
Secretary who has in his "democratic record" the letting of remand prisoners
to die of cancer while in chains, or even pregnant women being kept clampped
to their beds while giving birth, decided in their next edition that
Fujimori was a "democrat" after all.  Not to mention the infamous conditions
of thousands of imprisoned people - among them hundreds of asylum seekers -
in Britain "zero tolerance" society.

No wonder, the Banana republic dictator and the Prime Minister of Her
Gracious Majesty looked into the mirror of their own eyes and realised that
after all, they were both of them rather humane!  Birds of a feather, hang
together!


Adolfo Olaechea




  

 



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