Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:21:00 GMT From: Hariette Spierings <hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk> Subject: M-I: 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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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