Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 18:08:16 +0100
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (hariette spierings)
Subject: Re: National Geographic


>On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Luis Quispe wrote:
>> 
>> ACT 3. During the last week of April, the Peruvian Intelligence
>> Services (SIN), hired John McCarry, a U.S. free lance
>> "journalist" who has worked in the past, promoting dictators in
>> Latin America and Asia. Sources in Lima reported that, he, and
>> National Geographic were paid more than $200,000 to promote "the
>> good image of Peru and Fujimori" to the world with the purpose of
>> increasing tourism. Thus, The National Geographic is shamelesly
>> launching a pro-Fujimori Campaign. However, McCarry in his first
>
>Louis: This is interesting. The National Geographic has a long history of 
>prettifying brutal dictatorships. Before the Vietnam war reached full 
>intensity, they would have all sorts of stories about "quaint" and 
>"picturesque" Indochina whose charm was being upset by "terrorists" 
>supported by Communist North Vietnam. This magazine, like Reader's 
>Digest, occupies a particular place in the ideological superstructure of the
>imperialist state. It would be a useful project to try to unravel the 
>financial and political connections the mag has to the US government.
>


It certainly would, Louis.  I think that is something that quite a few
people in this list, especially those with good access to research
facilities - and without in any way having to become Maoists or renounce
their own points of view - could do as a useful contribution to the
anti-imperialist struggle and to the cause of the Peruvian revolution, which
is in deed a part of the world revolution for every right thinking person in
this list.

Adolfo Olaechea



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