Humala roulette or the Fujimoris' revenge?

Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net

Without doubts, Ollanta Humala is similar to Chavez in some aspects: military officer, former coup leader, leftist, radical discourse, and even physically they have resemblances. However, althought Humala seems to have much affinity with the current Venezuelan president, we could also make a comparison between Chavez and Keiko Fujimori, but in another matter: the revenge motif.

The worst of Chavez was known by Venezuelans from April 13, 2002, after Chavez returned to power following the confusing events that led to the installation of a new government that lasted only two days.

Since 1999, the resentment was always one of the driving forces of Chavismo, but from that April 2002, Chavista leaders began a revenge campaign that is still used as an excuse to suppress civil liberties in Venezuela.

Nine years later, legal proceedings, media and tax harassments are still covered with the legends of April 11, 2002. Opposition leaders jailed, others exiled, purge in the armed forces, opposition owned companies nationalized or fined, and criminalization of protest are part of this history, where even students who complain about bus fare increases are immediately branded as "coup conspirators" by the government.

And all this is justified by the actions of an anti-Chavez government that lasted only two days, where times and "excesses" are incomparable to those supported by Alberto Fujimori and his allies in Peru for over ten years.

For us, voting for Humala in Peru is like playing a game of chance, because no one knows exactly how true are the words of this former soldier when he says he does not think imitating Chavez. But where we would speak of certainty is in the title of the tragedy that Peruvians will live if the daughter of the late dictator of that country becomes president: "The Fujimoris' revenge".

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