May 31, 2021
No More Fujimori, Photo: La Republica
Resumen is running this article in the run up to this Sunday’s election in Peru to show who the thoroughly neoliberal Kiko Fujimori surrounds herself with; the traitors of progressive movements for social change in Latin America. – editorial
Presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori vowed to preserve democracy and, once again, asked for forgiveness for the mistakes made by her party, in an act in which Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López and writer Mario Vargas Llosa were remotely present.
Just six days before the second round of the presidential elections in Peru, Fujimori signed, in the southern Andean city of Arequipa, her “oath for Peru” in an attempt to dispel the doubts of the voters who are reluctant to support her and in view of the possibility that her rival Pedro Castillo, who represents, according to her, “communism”, will win.
“This is one of the most transcendental elections, because there is a risk that, on the same day we celebrate the bicentenary of independence, communism will come to power to try to perpetuate itself in power”, said Fujimori.
A day after the last public debate against Castillo, Fujimori promised to preserve democracy and that during the five years of her hypothetical government “everyone will have the right to demonstrate with total freedom”.
Likewise, the Popular Force candidate vowed to respect freedom of expression, to allow the press to inform, give opinions and supervise without restrictions, to strengthen the Political Constitution, and to fight against corruption so that “no one will go unpunished” if they betray the trust in her government.
The former legislator acknowledged that in the recent past neither she nor her party were up to that standard, alluding to the political crisis that led to the closure of Congress in 2018, and asked for forgiveness “to all those who have felt let down by us.”
In addition, Fujimori thanked the public support of the laureate writer Mario Vargas Llosa, “after 30 years of distance and many differences”, but now he has been one of the first figures of international scope to show his support and ask for the vote for his candidacy.
In a video message, the Nobel literature laureate explained that the reason he supports Fujimori is because “if we elect Pedro Castillo, there will probably be no more free elections in the history of Peru”.
“Both Castillo, as well as (Vladimir) Cerrón who heads the party, and several of those elected to Parliament have proclaimed that they are more than truly revolutionary citizens and that they will no longer leave that power, that is to say, they will establish a system in which control of future elections will be in power,” Vargas Llosa said.
The writer added that “in other words, it means the establishment of a socialist or communist system that will be added to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. These compatriots simply do not seem to have learned that communism does not exist, it is simply the work of failed countries such as Cuba and Venezuela”.
Vargas Llosa reiterated: “I do not want my country to be a potential Venezuela, where five million have fled to find work and not die of hunger”.
For his part, Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López was one of the guests at this ceremony, where he explained that his country is currently “the poorest in Latin America below Haiti” and with “the greatest migratory crisis in the history of the American continent”.
He recalled that in 1999 began the process of “undermining democracy” in Venezuela with the proposal of the late former President Hugo Chávez to change the Constitution, but that, at the same time, he removed all those responsible for the democratic institutions.
Subsequently, in 2014 “a second mirage of economic bonanza was created”, with the increase in the price of oil, but at present, “neither the political nor the economic mirage is maintained in Venezuela”, but a dictatorship remains in power.
López, who arrived on Sunday in Peru with his wife Lilian Tintori, trusted that Peruvians will manage to solve their social demands in democracy, after pointing out the political repression in his country and the years he spent in prison for being an opposition leader.
Source Infobae, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English