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LIMA. On November 11, 1995, more than 1,500 health care workers of Lima took over the building of the Ministry of Health. Before the take over, all security personnel and police guarding the building, were suddenly captured by the strikers. After 4 hours, and due to the military reinforcements, the strikers left the building in an orderly manner. Fujimori's crony Eduardo Young (Minister of Health) left just before the takeover. [La Republica/El Mundo of November 29, 1995]
PUNO. On November 28, 1995, the people of Huancane carried out a strike and general mobilization of peasants and workers grouped in a Defense Front. At least 200 people took over the police station after the military surrendered (others fled in panic.) The people burned the police station and the home of Fujimori's fraudulently elected Mayor Francisco Aracayo. Six policeman and 6 peasants were critically wounded. [El Comercio, November 29, 1995]
PCP FIGHTERS FREED 8 PRISONERS OF WAR. On December 7, 1995, a People's Army (EPL) column led by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) conducted a lightening blitzkrieg-style military operation and liberated eight (8) prisoners of war. The commando action destroyed a military convoy in the Central Highway (between Huanuco and Pasco); two tanks and several armored carriers were destroyed; most of the 30 soldiers in the convoy were annihilated; the few survivors surrendered and asked for mercy; the EPL released them after the soldiers gave up their weapons, ammunition and communication equipment. In another action (December 16), and EPL mobile column attacked the Army's special forces anti-subversive Battalion No. 313 in San Martin's Nuevo Progreso district. The initial attack was a typical Maoist military operation of "quick decision" causing 12 casualties and 10 seriously wounded in the battalion front patrol. Battalion No.313 retreated attempting a safe escape, but the EPL followed with rapid persecution-wipe out tactics for two hours; only 18 special forces specialists survived.
PATAZ. On December 12, 1995, a contingent of PCP combatants with the support of the population took over the Andean towns of Patramarca and Huancaspata in the province of Pataz, Department of La Libertad. The police station was overrun and one paramilitary was wounded. The Vice-Mayor was captured and subsequently released. [El Comercio, December 12, 1995]
AYACUCHO. On December 12, 1995, at 8:30 PM, a bomb exploited in the city market "Mercadillo de San Sebastian" in the city of Huamanga, the capital of Ayacucho. The same day an intense guerrilla activity took place was near Vizcatan and was reported by the reactionary Army. The People's Army was engaged in violent military clashes against four military patrols led by an officer named "Mascaro." In the past, the regime has speculated that "Feliciano" [whom they allege leads the PCP] was operating out of the People's Committee of Vizcatan. [Expreso, April 12, 1995]
TACNA. On December 12, 1995, Maoist guerrilla activity was reported in the city of Tacna in the Southern border with Chile. As usual, the regime claimed to have captured Maoists, but could not provide evidence. [Expreso, December 12, 1995.]
LIMA. November 22, 1995. During a presentation at the Pacification and Human Rights Committee of Fujimori's Kangaroo Congress, Interior Minister General Juan Briones acknowledged that 300 police stations nationwide were seized by the PCP and are now being reinstalled. He promised that "the Army will allow the Red Cross to receive denunciation on tortures and human rights abuses...He also promised monthly reports on the fight against subversion and narcotrafficking as well as the sanctions against the military involved in drug trafficking." [Gestion, El Comercio, El Peruano, November 23, 1995]
Note. The above reveals 2 important aspects of the war: 1) the success of the mobile guerrilla warfare in which the PCP was able to overrun 300 police stations with the consequent take over of cities and towns nationwide, 2) the fact that no independent observer on the Army conduct in counterinsurgency activities exists. No Human Rights group, including the Red Cross have access to monitor the war zones, therefore, all reports that they receive are from an "official source" which every body knows is one of the belligerants in the People's War.
LIMA. GUERRILLA ATTACK ON A TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. On January 5, 1996, the offices of Empresa "Luz del Sur" were smashed by a PCP contingent in the district of Villa Maria del Triunfo. A large float of buses and trucks of this company are been used to transport troops and paramilitary of the reactionary army in Central and Southern Peru (El Comercio, El Mundo, January 5, 1996)
FIGHT AMONG NARCO GENERALS. Fernando Rospigliosi (Jan. 21, 1996. Caretas 1395) stated that under pressure from the US Embassy, the Peruvian Armed Forces will withdraw from the "war against drugs." Currently there are many Generals involved in narcotrafficking and some were already indicted. Rospigliosi acknowledges the fact that in 1989, the PCP took over the police station and the city Uchiza, after killing in combat and capturing most of its police. It was surprising for the reactionaries to see how the entire population supported the actions of the guerrilla against a hated military. Afterwards, the Armed forces replaced the police in the "fight against drugs" which led to its deep involvement in the drug business. In 1995, the new police station of New Progreso was again overrun by the Maoists. The regime has seen how the people openly supported the rebels and criticized the corrupt and abusive military. The change of the Army by the police in the "war against drugs" is irrelevant. The drug barons have deeply corrupted the military and police forces at all levels since 1989 when they entered the Huallaga Valley, especially during the military coup of 1992, when the Army in alliance with the drug cartels was fighting against the Maoist guerrillas. Several military officers denounced their superiors for cooperating openly with Colombian and Peruvian drug firms. Also, drug barons such as Abelardo Cachiche and peasants in the region have denounced the military for transporting cocaine in military aircraft. "Cachiche" and exiled Army officials Castillo and Valdivieso have testified that the government's allegations of a purportedly "PCP involvement in drugs" were untrue.
Traditionally, the Peruvian military (Army, Navy and Air Force) has been very effective in murdering unarmed civilians and hundreds of political prisoners (Cantogrande, El Fronton, Lurigancho, etc.) , but coward in fighting the PCP's People's Army who are defeating the reactionary Army through a mobile guerrilla warfare in the entire country, or the Ecuadorian Army, that has soundly defeated the Peruvian genocidal Army during the last conflict in the Northern border.
Journalist Mirko Lauer (Resumen Semanal Dec 29, 1995) reported on a major rift between the Army and the police has emerged. They are competing for the control of the Huallaga Valley which means a multimillion dollar drug business. The USDEA funds a police program called "Dirandro." The conflict between these two corrupt and criminal institutions has become public. The Army intelligence service released a video to a local channel "America TV" showing the top police brass trafficking in drugs and profiting from the properties confiscated to the drug barons. The police responded by conducting a show during the capture of the remnants of the MRTA and Lori Berenson whose actions were harmless since they were under surveillance for at least one year. Then, Fujimori congratulated the police, appointed a CIA pawn general Ketin Vidal as its head. At the same time announced that "no military is involved in drugs", the military tribunal [made up by the same Army crooks] found 6 out of the 11 generals implicated in the drug business, innocents. That is the way the old state is crumbling along a raging People's War.
WORKING CLASS FIGHTS PRIVATIZATION OF PETRO PERU. The National Federation of Oil Workers (Fenpetrol) of Petro Peru based in the oil refinery of Talara called for an indefinite strike beginning on February 1st. The strike was called in protest for the firing of 1,540 workers under the disguise that is being privatized. Talara provides oil for the entire Northern region. Several imperialist companies are behind the privatization of Petro Peru among them Oxy-Bridas and several subsidiaries of Yankee oil companies among them Provisa, Rio Bravo, GMP, and Unipetro. The Chinese capital is represented by Sapet. This capitalist company has the particularity that all its workers are Chinese earnings meager salaries. The union leaders of Petro Peru were accused of being "terrorists" by the government. It is the struggle of the people and the workers that has resisted further the sell out of key resources to imperialist plunders.
TOCACHE. At 10:30 AM, on January 17, 1996, a contingent of the People's Army of Liberation ambushed a military convoy in the locality of Nuevo Progreso. At least 5 soldiers were wounded and the rest of the convoy were captured. A large quantity of weapons were seized. [Express, January 19, 1996]
SATIPO. The paramilitary base of Shiguaviric located on the bank of the River Ene, was overrun by a Maoist contingent. Other clashes between the military and the PCP were reported in the border of the departments of Cusco and Ayachucho. [El Comercio, January 20, 1996]
SATIPO. At 5 AM on January 20, 1996, more than 100 PCP combatants with the support of the community took over the locality of Selva Virgin in the district of Rio Tambo. The police station was overrun.
SAN MARTIN. A PCP GUERRILLA CONTINGENT SMASHED AN ARMY PATROL IN TOCACHE. At 10:30 AM, on February 8, 1996, at least 50 Maoist guerrillas attacked with grenades and rockets the main Army patrol of Tocache. During a clash of 40 minutes, thirteen soldiers and 2 paramilitary were killed in combat, 5 others were wounded in a spectacular ambush in the Zone known as Cucaracha in the heart of the Huallaga Valley. An Army Lieutenant Colonel, who was known as a bloody tyrant and protector of narcotraffickers in the area, was identified among the dead. The People's Army attacked from various directions, most of the captured soldiers were released. The guerrillas captured heavy weapons and at least 20 submachine guns. The communique of the Armed Forces of Fujimori did not indicate any casualties in the guerrilla forces. This attack occurred just after one month and a half of the last guerrilla action on December 18, 1995 in the locality known as Victor Andres Belaunde in the district of Nuevo Progreso. [Express, El Mundo, AFP, February 2, 1996, most of the newspapers, February 9, 1996.]
On February 8, the PCP contingent with the support of the community expelled the military authorities from Angashyacu-Riofrio, 45 km. North of Tingo Maria. In the main square, a trial was conducted by the same population against the heads of Fujimori's paramilitary Rondas with debts of blood and direct collaborators of the government forces. Three of them were executed and a dozen were set free. One of the executed was the manager of the Army run cafeteria. All Military vehicles were burned. [El Comercio, February 2, 1996.]
GERMANY. Guerrillas (supporters of the PCP), bombed a German government office. On December 27, 1995, Reuters reported that the Anti-Imperialist Cell of Germany (AIZ) blasted a Duesseldorf office block four days ago, against the imperialist government of Bonn that provides economic and military assistance to the fascist regime of Fujimori. The leaflet reads: Long live the People's War! The blast, early on Saturday morning, shattered windows in a building housing the Peruvian Consulate. No-one was injured. In a 23-page statement sent to news agencies, AIZ said it planted the bomb to draw international attention to the conditions of poverty and misery in which Peruvians live. Especially the inhuman conditions in which more than 7500 PCP political prisoners languish in concentrations camps. It warned of more "fatal"' attacks to come against the representatives of the child-killer butcher Fujimori in Germany and Europe. It stated the following: "With the explosives, which we put in the main entrance of this building...which houses the Peruvian Consulate, we highlight the situation for the majority of people in Peru.'' In a statement written in a mixture of German, English, and Spanish, AIZ also expressed open solidarity with the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) and its Central Committee leading the Peruvian revolution [The PCP is known as the "Shining Path" by reactionaries and imperialists all over the world] AIZ criticized the German government for pursuing imperialist policies in Latin America and for promoting a "military-civilian dictatorship" in Peru.
Editor's Note. Fujimori's official newspaper El Peruano reported that on March 27, 1996, Edward Lintier, Germany's Vice-Minister of Interior announced in Lima that his government has allocated 1 million Marks for counter-insurgency efforts. These projects were justified to the German parliament under the guise of "war on drugs." A crude imitation of the Yankee initiative in the Andes to combat revolutionary movements.
PEOPLE OF CHIMBOTE REPUDIATE BLOODY DICTATOR. Despite the police repression, on January 26, 1996 the people of the Northern city of chimbote repudiated the presence of Fujimori. More than 700 steel workers and port workers joined the rally. They protested the policy of selling off to imperialist companies the steel company of Sider Peru and the ports of Chimbote. An additional 440 steel workers were fired during the visit of Fujimori.
BRAZIL'S PARLIAMENT REPUDIATES MURDERER FUJIMORI. On February 28, 1996, Fujimori announced that his government paid 3 million dollars to the Andean Pact. He also offered the services of its political police (SIN) to investigate the alleged presence of PCP cadres in the Brazilian Amazon, especially the PCP's influence with the organization "peasants without land du Brazil." This vicious butcher claimed that "he has eradicated terrorism while respecting human rights." The significant part of this visit was that the Brazilian Parliament unanimously condemned the Peruvian regime and denied his request to address Congress.
(El Comercio, February 29, 1996)
SAN MARTIN. On February 20, 1996, PCP Maoist combatants executed in combat a member of Dincote (political police) Jhony Yomona Guivin. This clash occurred near the police base of Aguaytia on the main highway of the province of Padre Abad (El Comercio, February 22, 1996.) On March 3rd, the armed forces and police violently clashed two contingents of the PCP People's Army of Liberation. The guerrillas ambushed 13 police and 20 soldiers. Both sides fought for 30 minutes in the localities of Tipishca and Rio Seco. One soldier was severely wounded. On March 25th, 13 policemen clashed with a group of guerrilla fighters in the area of Huaranguillo. The army stated that no loses on both sides occurred. However, witnesses in nearby communities said that several bodies were picked up from the battle field by the military. (El Comercio March 25)
TOCACHE. On February 24, 1996, a violent clash between the PCP's People's Army of Liberation and the reactionary armed forces of Fujimori took place in the locality of Tipishca, district of Nuevo Progreso. The guerrilla contingent withdrew from the center of operations in an orderly manner. (El Comercio, February 27, 1996)
CAJAMARCA. On February 24, 1996, several guerrilla actions occurred in the province of Celendin and the province of Santa in Chimbote in Northern Peru. At least a dozen government buildings and police stations were smashed. (El Comercio, February 25, 1996)
LIMA. On March 28, 1996, the pro-government paper El Mundo reported that there was evidence that the PCP's urban guerrilla activities have been reactivated in Huaycan and El Salvador, key districts in metropolitan Lima. The execution of the government's informant Pascuala Rosado, was the culmination of several political and military actions of the Maoist guerrillas (March 28, 1996)
THE PEOPLE'S WAR SHAKING UP THE OLD STATE. Newsweek, in its 4th issue of March reported that "Sendero's" activities have been surging steadily in Peru. Newsweek said that one indication of this was the execution of police informant Pascuala Rosada who operated for years in the Shantytown of Huaycan. Pascuala was under SIN's (Peruvian CIA) "Witness Protection Program." However, Newsweek repeats the old thesis of the government's counterinsurgency advisors known as Senderologists. Its says: "Sendero has no possibilities to win. Its support is only based on FEAR in the Shantytowns. That's why very few people showed up at the funeral of Pascuala Rosado." Didn't they say the same story after the execution of the organizer of urban paramilitary and SIN informant, Mela Moyano? (Expresso March 29, 1996)
On March 19, the government's mouthpiece Express, quoted police analysts and Senderologists, lamenting the latest PCP guerrilla actions. It listed the executions of several governors (gobernadores) in the Huallaga Valley, attacks of the police stations and ambushes of the reactionary army as wells as the take over of cities and villages, threats to imperialist businessmen and the cronies of Fujimori, including massive paintings inn walls and distribution of dazibaos/leaflets in the last 15 days.
LIMA. On March 10, 1996, Agency France Press reported that an intelligence source indicated that the PCP is "infiltrating the poor neighborhoods of Lima, organizing people's schools and youth organizations to reactivate itself." Police Senderologists working in La Republica claimed that "Sendero still controls some areas in the country, from which it can move its fighters to Lima and try to reactivate its local Committees..." (La Republica, March 11)
BOLIVIA. The Bolivian police reported that Peruvian Maoists have penetrated the locality of Janco, near the border with Peru, and
have conducted armed assaults against government vehicles. Note. The Bolivian government has signed a "counterinsurgency" agreement with Fujimori and is providing logistic and military aid to the dictator. (Expresso March 1996)
ACACIA. On March 18, 1996, the political-military command of Acacia acknowledged that one of its patrols has suffered a devastating ambush at the hands of the PCP's People's Army of Liberation, and one Captain died. This guerrilla action occurred on the 15th at 12 PM. in the locality of Huahuasana, District of San Miguel, province of La Mar. (Expresso, March 19, 1996)
LIMA. On March 10, a guerrilla contingent dynamited the headquarters of "Edelnor" (Electricity Company.) At the same time another group, seized a wealthy supermarket. The first action occurred at 5:35 AM (before working hours) in the District of San Juan de Lurigancho where the guerrilla placed in the window .5 kilos of anfo. Two hours later, another group of Maoists seized the supermarket of La Union in the Shantytown of Bayovar in the District of San Juan de Lurigancho. (Most papers March 11, 1996)
EL DIARIO INTERNACIONAL (EDI) DID NOT ISSUE A DEATH THREAT TO SNITCH MICHEL AZCUETA. ONLY THE PERUVIAN PEOPLE WILL JUDGE AND PUNISH AZCUETA FOR HIS CRIMES.
LIMA. On March 12, 1996, the yellow newspaper El Mundo reported that police snitch and organizer of paramilitary groups in Villa El Salvador, Michel Azcueta, was being indirectly threatened with his life by the EDI. "In the article `Father Courage and Paramilitary Groups,' Azcueta was ummasked of organizing a "citizen's security plan," inspired in fascism. It is a new modality of urban rondas."
El Mundo stated that government Senderologists ("political analysts") sustain that "when Sendero denounced someone of corruption or an organizer of paramilitary Rondas, it was a death sentence." La Republica and El Mundo falsely claimed that EDI has accepted the PCP authorship of the execution of Pascuala: "Sendero has acknowledged the authorship of the PCP." The fact is that EDI has eloquently described who Pascuala Rosado was, but there was no mention that the PCP has claimed responsibility for her execution, at all.
Note: Despite the countless crimes of the regime, the combative people of Peru have no fear of continuing the armed struggle. It is the reactionaries who have fear of the revolution, the strategic equilibrium and the revolutionary justice. Whoever claims that EDI speaks for the PCP Central Committee, is fooling himself.
LIMA. SENDEROLOGISTS' RESPONSE TO PCP OFFENSIVE. In the face of the March successful guerilla attacks of the PCP through the nation, the government's outlets responded with a massive campaign of psychological warfare in the press against the people's War. Thus, on March 12, Gestion published leaks of the intelligence services SIN and the mercenary agents known as Senderologists. It stated: "Sendero has collapsed into small dissident factions..The terrorist attacks are the last signs of desperation ...they are killing each other in the jails."
It also added that the government is organizing paramilitary in 8 municipalities, and one of them is Villa El Salvador where there are 300,000 people. The most notorious Senderologists working for the Security Services are: Raul Gonzales, Carlos Ivan Degregori, Enrique Bernales and Carlos Tapia. All of them with debts of blood against the people.
Caretas (March 18, 1996), the magazine of the big bourgeoisie, quotes SIN (Peruvian CIA) and Dincote sources stating that:
"Sendero is working hard in its recomposition. It has frozen its military actions to invest all its energy in the political arena. The reasons that determine such an action have to do with the opportunity and propaganda such as in the case of Pascuala Rosado which has a good international impact since it coincided with the International Day of Women and the meeting of the presidents of the Andean Countries hosted in the city of Trujillo. The leadership is in Huallaga, but some information revealed, that they moved to the Valley of Ene. The grave problem of Sendero is the split between the Gonzalo forces and Feliciano's. " Two conclusions can be drawn from this fact:
1. The enemy does not know who the actual PCP leaders are.
2. The same government's claim that, President Gonzalo has been very sick and in complete isolation, dismisses the counterrevolutionary hoax of "peace talks." Therefore, the claim that the PCP is split in two factions is ludicrous.
3. All actions of the PCP's People's Army of Liberation have a political purpose and they are carefully planned. Hence, they flushed their claim of "PCP is terrorist" down the drain.
Police sociologist Raul Gonzales stated, "Sendero is seriously wounded, but was not defeated yet." He is saying this since 1988. Alberto Ku King, whom El Diario of Lima, said once that he behaves like an agent of Interpol, stated: "Some actions of the hard line wings of Sendero lately, do not mean that they are organically reconstituted." Of course, that is disinformation, since Gonzales bosses, Generals Hermoza and Ketin Vidal assert that the PCP enjoys good health. If not, who is the target of their "new strategy of total war"? They are not fighting against the wind mills of Quixote but against the People's War led by the PCP. Get real Ku King!
LIMA. "FAMILY PLANNING" DEMAGOGIC POSTURE OF THE DICTATOR.
On February 27, in Brazil, the cynical dictator that always denied the class struggle in Peru, stated:
1. "I don't care about the opposition of the Church." This is the Church that has blessed his crimes and the bloody bayonets of the armed forces. The "leader" of such opposition is the boot licker and promoter of paramilitary rondas Archbishop of Acacia, Juan Cipriani.
2. "The rich Catholics have the right to use contraceptives, why not the poor Catholics?" Since when does Fujimori, the murderer of the poor, who has made Peru a land of tuberculosis and cholera, care about the poor? His government is producing 300,000 new Peruvians living in extreme poverty every year. His offer of providing "free condoms" to the people is, in order to comply with the orders on population control by his imperialist masters (IMF, World Bank.) Why doesn't he provide health care, jobs, potable water, sewage, food and electricity to most Peruvians who are lacking these basic necessities? Lackey Fujimori believes that by carrying out genocidal policies of extermination and population control, he will reduce poverty in Peru." [El Mundo February 29, 1996]
LIMA. MASSIVE ARREST OF HOMOSEXUALS. On February 28, 1996, most of the papers in Lima reported the arbitrary arrests of 300 gays and lesbians in several parts of the city as part of the "sexual education" and "family planning" law of the fascist dictatorship.
This repression has been encouraged by the Church hierarchy and the conservative parties since tyrant Fujimori staged a military coup in Peru in 1992. In previous years, the extinct revisionist group MRTA has been particularly brutal in killing homosexuals in the Department of San Martin. The PCP has a clear policy of respecting the rights of this marginal but oppressed portion of Peruvian society.
WORLD BANK ASKS DICTATOR TO PRIVATIZE UNIVERSITIES.
El Comercio of March 1st, reported that Armeane Choksi. Vice- President of the World Bank, requested that the government privatize the universities. Educators and specialists such as Alan Trahtemberg estimated that about 3 million students will be thrown out of classes if this policy is implemented. The rights to free public education in Peru were conquered with the blood of the people in long struggles. However, this government has imposed exorbitant fees for all levels of education and has tripled the tuition in the universities, as a first step for a total privatization. The little that is left for the education of the people must be defended. In Peru, there are many private schools where the children of the bourgeoisie receive the government's subsidized education. The regime invests heavily in the education of the ruling class, including paid scholarships to schools in the U.S. and Europe. All Fujimori children attend school in the U.S. Therefore, the privatization targets directly the education of the sons and daughters of the people. According to El Comercio (March 1, 1996), the World Bank has drafted a plan for the regime and that to prevent the just resistance of the student movement, "it should privatize the universities gradually."
BLOODY REPRESSION AGAINST STREET VENDORS. On the one hand, the dictatorship and its imperialist backers, demagogically promote the capitalist method of "informal activity or self-management" to compensate the massive unemployment and underemployment. On the other hand, it brutally represses the desperate masses that turn themselves into street vendors to feed their families. The new reactionary Mayor of Lima, Alberto Andrade and Fujimori's Minister of the Presidency, Jaime Yoshiyama, after collecting taxes in advance from the vendors, used their armed forces to brutally eject and confiscate the goods of 400 street vendors of "Parque Universitario." In addition, 1,500 vendors of "Avenida Abancay" were beaten and expelled from their places. A total of 37 people wounded were reported. Their leaders were arrested by the police accused of being "terrorists." That is the real face of the "democracy" in Peru. Fujimori's crony Yoshiyama alleges that the street vendors "cause chaos, collective neurosis and violence." [Expresso March 3, 1996]
LIMA. On March 11, 1996, El Mundo, a paper close to the intelligence services, quoted an unidentified Dincote source that President Gonzalo "has been in a very poor health and in a complete isolation." This is another evidence that the "peace talks" is a counter-revolutionary hoax and that their claim of a divided PCP is a dream of the reactionaries. Meanwhile, La Republica (March 11, 1996) stated that the execution of police informant Pascuala Rosada by a group of women in the district of Huaycan, is a indication of a guerrilla offensive "Sendero still controls some zones of the country from where it can sent combatants to Lima."
PARAMILITARY MORE ORGANIZED IN CITIES: URBAN RONDAS
In a vain attempt to contain the advance of the People's War in the cities, the counterinsurgency police is organizing paramilitary in close cooperation with some local municipal authorities. This effort is led by corrupt politicians such as Michel Azcueta in the shantytown of El Salvador and by others in 2 human settlements in the district of Ate-Vitarte under the guise of "fighting crime." "We work with the police" said one of their leaders. [El Comercio, March 3, 1996.] On March 18, 1996, El Mundo reported that CIA puppet and police Chief General Antonio Ketin Vidal confirmed that he is organizing paramilitary in coordination with the Ministry of the Interior and the local municipalities.
SNITCH MICHEL AZCUETA FINGERS PCP SUPPORTERS.
On March 13, the known trafficker of poverty in the Shantytown of Villa El Salvador, Michel Azcueta, said that 300 subversives may have been freed and he has seen them on the streets. He was contradicted by his friends in government. Luz Salgado, Fujimori's spokeswoman, said that these people may have been innocents arrested and released thereafter upon request from human rights groups and the Church." (La Republica, March 14)
NGOs FUNDED BY USAID: CORNERSTONE OF COUNTERINSURGENCY.
On March 18, 1996, the government's mouthpiece Expresso published that most of the "reconstruction" of the peasant communities under guerrilla influence is being done by the NGOs. In Acacia, for example, NGOs and the Army are working on the forced re-settlement of 37% of the peasants.
PATAZ. LA LIBERTAD. The PCP's People's Army of Liberation seized an imperialist mining company operating in the District of Tayabamba, Province of Pataz. The police and security forces quickly surrendered. A large quantity of explosives, dynamite and weapons were captured with the participation of the workers. Many youngsters enrolled volunteered into the guerrilla ranks, PCP slogans were shouted by the community, leaflets and revolutionary paintings were prepared before the Maoists withdrew from the area [Expresso, March 19, 1996]
LIMA. The pro-government papers "El Mundo" and "Expresso" reported on March 21th, that a police Major, who was a high member of Dincote, was executed by the PCP in Lima's beltway road known as "Carretera Central." They also acknowledged that several guerrilla activities were carried out in the zone of Chosica in the outskirts of Lima.
LIMA. On March 3, 1996, the reactionary magazine SI, the host of Senderologists Raul Gonzales, Degregori and Henry Peace, reported that the reactionary armed forces of Fujimori and the PCP's People's Army of Liberation were engaged in military clashes in the Province of La Mar, Acacia. It stated: "The merit of General Hermoza, Chief of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces is to introduce the concept of `total war' against subversion. To this end, the legal norms and the international treaties have been adjusted in order to improve the moral of our troops, and the civil actions to organize the population against subversion. We cannot say that subversion has disappeared...especially now when they have openly allied themselves with the narcotraffickers."
REPLY:
1) The "concept of total war" is the Yankee imperialism guidance on Low Intensity Warfare, which has been implemented in Peru for the last few years. The facts show that the concept of People's War based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo Thought is far superior than the "new tactics" of the reactionaries.
2) "Adjustment of legal norms" means to place 65% of the country under a state of emergency, dismantle the judicial system, impose curfews, and commit impune crimes against the people.
3) The "international treaties" mean to slice the national territory and to violate the national sovereignty to the benefit of reactionary neighboring regimes and U.S. imperialism that control them (e.g., treaty with Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia.) Their objective is to justify a direct or indirect Yankee military intervention to combat the People's war led by the PCP.
4) The morale of the genocidal army of Fujimori, author of multiple genocides will be tarnished forever, until its total destruction by the People's War.
5) To organize the population to confront masses against masses is nothing new, it was done in Vietnam, Guatemala, and today is being done in Peru.
6) Is the PCP involved in drugs? Where is the evidence? There is none. The term "Narcoterrorism" is an invention of the decrepit Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. The fact is that the armed forces of Fujimori is involved in drugs up to the neck. Hundreds of army officers were implicated in drug trafficking, some diplomats were caught with drugs in international airports, and drug kings arrested by the Yankee DEA provided elaborated details on their work with the military. You cannot hide that. Didn't General Jaime Rios Arauco, ex-Chief of the Army in the Upper Huallaga Valley say that he fed his troops and receive money from the drug cartel's? That has been the real alliance [La Republica, January 3, 1996.] Didn't Gen. Rios say that Fujimori and the Armed Forces were aware of such an alliance?
Why is the DEA covering this up? Why did Clinton re-certified Fujimori's drug policies knowing he heads a narco-regime? The answer is simply: The victorious People's War.
LIMA. On March 6, 1996, Amnesty International (AI) issued a press release attacking the PCP. AI is remembered in Peru for its coward silence in more than a dozen genocides committed by the reactionary regimes in Peru, especially Fujimori. For example, after the 300 prisoners of war were murdered in the Prison of El Fronton in 1986, and another 100 political prisoners (true prisoners of conscience!) were butchered in the prison of Cantogrande. AI blinked its eyes in front of the dictator. The new AI statement read: "...We condemn this crime and other thousands of atrocities of SL in the last 15 years." Furthermore, AI request that the murderous Armed Forces should protect "the popular leaders" is like asking Hitler to protect the Jews and the Communists. When in the history of Peru, did the genocidal Armed Forces of Peru protect the people? If that was the case, there should be no revolution. We would like to ask the gentlemen of AI, to substantiate their allegedly "thousands of crimes of the PCP" with independent sources other than the Peruvian regime, the US State Department (its funded NGOs) and the Senderologists. The New Flag.
FINANCIAL TIMES OF LONDON EXPOSES THE CHARADE OF "ECONOMIC MIRACLE." Sally Bowen [March 7, 1996] reported that Peru's economic growth rate will fall to around 4 per cent this year, less than half the 1993-95 annual average, Mr Jorge Camet, economy and finance minister, said. This forecast followed Michael Camdessus', International Monetary Fund managing director letter of 20 February, he expressed "concern" over the recent rise in inflation (an accumulated 2.8 per cent for the first two months) and the pace of import growth. Mr. Candessus is obviously more preoccupied about the payments of the regime to its foreign creditors. Camdessus warned: "I do not believe it is realistic to hope the exceptional treatment given to Peru up to now by foreign creditors will continue at the same levels in the future." In 1995 current account deficit closed at $3.75bn, or 7.5 per cent of official GDP, according to central bank figures released this week. Exports rose 22.3 per cent to $5.57bn on the back of high international minerals and commodities prices, but imports rose 37.9 per cent to $7.69 bn, leaving a trade gap of $2.12 bn, more than double the 1994 total.
THE "ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT" (EIU) ANALYZES PERU.
The publication Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a Wall Street imperialist outlet, in its February release stated:
1. EIU: "Despite Fujimori's public approval which has floated in the range of 60-70%,...the regime lacks political leadership. The opposition Party Union for el Peru of Perez de Cuellar, has turned into a misled organization....Lima's Mayor Alberto Andrade is now seen as the new possible challenger to Fujimori in the next presidential election."
The above is revealing. Fujimori's popularity is highly questionable since SIN, the regime's intelligence services, has the control of at least 3 opinion poll companies. Among them are Apoyo S.A,. Imagen, who release periodically fraudulent survey results, manipulating public opinion. Most of the surveys are done by phone in wealthy areas. In the last presidential election, more than 75% of the eligible voters did not vote or voided it. Thus, the "popularity" of Fujimori is like the foam of a beer. His only real support is the bloody bayonets of the Armed Forces. What good has Mayor Andrade done so far? As soon as he took over, he licked the boots of the military by pledging loyalty to the dictator. Then, he unleashed his paramilitary, police and Army to savagely beat and expelled 400,000 street vendors to "clean up Lima," he fired 2,000 workers. Andrade is a former member of the right-wing fascist group Popular Christian Party (PPC.)
2. EIU: "During the run-up to the presidential election (first half of 1995), the government's expenditures rose by more than 45%, compared with the year before...The current account deficit widened to $2.68 billion in the first nine months of 1995, compared with $1.32 billion during the same period in the year before...It will continue to increase in the period 1996-98. It will not cover the deficit gap. Thus, the government will be relying on privatization of Petro Peru (oil), Electro Peru (electricity), and Centromin Peru (minerals) to generate a three buffer areas after which the export -by the privatized companies- should neutralize the deficit. Tourism will also help...Total foreign privatization revenues in 1995 reached only 1.09 billion, less than half of 1994's 2.32 billion."
First, the above represents the IMF plan, which goes along with the massive firing of workers, who, to survive, become street vendors and thus plunge into poverty. The wages of all workers are drastically reduced due to the high unemployment and recession. Second, the privatization enforced by the military of key economic strategic sectors, are being resisted by the workers and people, mainly because of the increase of the political and military actions of the People's War in 1995. The greedy foreign capitalists thought that the revolution was defeated with the capture of one of its top leaders. Now they woke up in nightmares when the raging People's War is intensifying the sabotage of imperialist investments. The crippling of the Canadian run Ontario Hydro Power Plant by the People's Army of Liberation, is a good example.
3. EIU: "In October 1995, the regime reached a preliminary Brady-style debt-restructuring agreement with its commercial bank creditors. According to government estimates, the agreement will incorporate some $4.4 billion of principal, plus $4-5 billion in interest. Final agreement may be reached during the first half of 1996, after which annual service costs will be $300-350 million dollars for the next five years...According to the original agreement with the Paris Club, annual service payments of $360m were to be made until 1996, when the payments would increase to around $900m per year."
That's the heart of the problem. All imperialism cares about is how to suck up the most blood from the Peruvian people. There is a deficit. Privatization do not solve the problem of the reactionaries. Fujimori will increase taxes to the impoverished people and fire even more workers to raise the money needed to satisfy his imperialist masters. To whom does the "privatization" benefit? EIU informs us: "As of December 1995, the bidders of Petro Peru are Chevron, Mobil, Murphy Oil, Amoco and Exxon (all USA)....Although a preliminary agreement with Shell-Mobil was signed in May 1995, for the development of the Camisea gasfields, a final contract has not been signed yet. The discrepancy between them is that the government wants two pipelines to transport gas to Lima over a seven year term, while Shell plans to establish a 500mw thermoelectric plant near Camisea and postpone the building of the pipelines...Shell wants to pay only 10% of royalties...Chevron is the competitor in this $2-2.5 billion dollars project." [Note. Camisea is the largest gas reserve in South America located in the Department of Cusco.]
THE CULTURAL OFFENSIVE OF IMPERIALISM. Disney (Touchstone, Buenavista, Hollywood Pictures), Warner and Fox, have recruited and provided licenses to Televideo, a video rental company owned by Frecuencia Latina, the second-largest TV channel in Peru. In 1996, Blockbuster Video opened four locations in Lima.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AT THE SERVICE OF YANKEE MASTERS.
Peru has a very rich culture. It has produced first rate literary proletarian writers, poets, artists and other original figures, whose intellectual property was never respected by any regime in place, and their foreign masters who have trafficked and profited from it. For example, many of the Hollywood movies and mass marketed music in the U.S. and Europe contain the Andean music, displays our historical ruins and architecture, etc. Have the imperialists ever respected the intellectual property of the oppressed countries such as Peru? Never. But, when our people use their "U.S. patented products," for even recipes on how to make a "slice of pizza," they use the puppet governments of our countries to suppress the national industry. Let's read the case reported in the EIU: "Following several months of dispute between Domino's Pizza (USA) and the local Disdon Pizza (Peru) for the use of similar logo colors and characteristics, the Fujimori government resolved the issue, in favor of the US company, considering that Domino Pizza is well known worldwide." This may appear to be a small issue, but it clearly illustrates whose interests serves, the genocidal U.S. puppet, country seller Fujimori.
THE 1995 DEFICIT GAP INCREASED 100%.
IEU: "Peru's trade imbalance is reaching a crisis. Between January and November 1995, the trade gap totalled $2.03 billion, compared with a $1.12 billion deficit in the same months in 1994. Imports were up around 40% during 1995, totaling approximately $7.47 billion. On the other hand, according to the government, exports reached $5.3 billion...The US is its principal market (20% of the total) followed by Great Britain." The total U.S. investment in Peru is $5.41 billion dollars compared with the relatively minuscule Japanese investment of $39.46 million (less than 1% of the total). [Gestion, February 28, 1996] This is important to correct the popular belief that Fujimori represents mainly the interests of the Japanese imperialists. In reality, he is the most faithful lackey of U.S. imperialism.
FASCIST TYRANNY HIRES FOREIGN MERCENARIES FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS.
ACT 1. In February 1996, the government contracted the services of Ms. Chabeli Iglesias (daughter of the singer Julio Iglesias) for a week long public relations tour of Southern Peru with Alberto Kenyo Fujimori. Ms. Iglesias is preparing a report "Fujimori: a symbol for big business in Peru" for the TV network Univision in the U.S. A Spanish paper (Madrid's "Diario 16", Feb. 26) informed us that the business deal turned into a torrid love affair between the singer's daughter, Chabeli, and Fujimori who has divorced his wife Susana Higuchi. Fujimori's wife denounced the widespread corruption in the government and made public her repentance. On Ms. Iglesias's part, she recently divorced her husband (writer R. Bofil) who accused her of being "an unfaithful sexpot obsessed with rich old men."
ACT 2. On April 20th, 1996, the African bourgeois feminist Gertrude Mongella, a tool of the Chinese regime in the last Women's Summit meeting of Beijing, was hired with all expenses paid by the regime. She toured with the Peruvian butcher in the Amazonian region. Univision showed TV images of Fujimori, Gertrude and the military providing hand outs of used clothes for children with an obvious counterinsurgency purpose of trafficking with the poverty of our people to wash out the criminal image of the dictator. Ignorant Gertrude in gratitude, for the high fee paid by the regime, told the children of the village of Junin Pablo (85% of them suffer from TB): "You have the water, you have the people, you have a great leader Fujimori, what else do you want children?"
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 article goes too far in licking the boots of the genocidal dictator and his military, that according to Human Rights groups holds the first place in political murders and disappearances in the world, and is known for starving their people with hunger and misery. McCurry didn't mind all that, and wrote in the May issue of National Geographic: "There is no more of the savage nihilism of the Shining Path..75% of the people support Fujimori...the Peruvian Indians believe that Fujimori is their God." He quoted two unknown experts of "Andean mysticism," most likely a couple of SIN operatives or Senderologists: "...Fujimori emerged to lead this country at a time of total darkness. Now think about the word `Pachacutic' the Inca that transformed the Incan Empire into greatness...Would anyone disagree that Peru has undergone an extraordinary transformation?...Isn't he pulling Peru away from the legacy of colonialism, leftist military dictatorships, and the Shining Path.?" Let's debunk the arguments of the advocate of the phony Pachacutic. According to the O'Brian & Sierra report of 8/1994, in 1993, 15 million Peruvians out of 24 million, live in chronic poverty (two out of three). The rate of increase per year since 1990, is 660,000 Peruvians are falling into extreme poverty. Former Minister of Agriculture Carlos Amat y Leon who is no friend at all of the PCP (Caretas January 24, 1996) stated: "In the Departments of Apurimac and Huancavelica the life expectancy is the same as Europe in the XVI Century." These are the areas that the Nisei "Pachacuti" and McCurry visited. The assertion that Fujimori is anti-colonialist is laughable. A similar McCurry's article on the Phillipines (before the overthrow of the dictatorship) was published, in which he considered Marcos a nationalist patriot. The PCP has an established plan and program for the country, based on the careful study of Peruvian reality. No one in Peruvian history, except the PCP founder J.C. Mariategui and President Gonzalo have scientifically studied the Peruvian society. McCurrey does not care about the facts, he is just doing his dirty job as a mercenary.
LIMA MAYOR ALBERTO ANDRADE MASSACRES MUNICIPAL WORKERS
On April 1st, 1996, workers of the Lima municipality began an indefinite strike, in protest of the firing of hundreds of workers. A week later on April 9th, the despot Mayor discontinued to payment of wages and health benefits to the workers' families. On April 11th, nine (9) leaders of the Workers Municipal Union (SITRAMUN) were fired and harassed by SIN in their homes (Gestion, El Mundo, April 4, 1996.) Meanwhile, the Association of Street Venders of Lima (Central Unica de Trabajadores Ambulantes) carried out a large mobilization of more than 30,000 street vendors against the Fujimori regime and his fascist Mayor. The PCP, always ingrained in the masses, has distributed a leaflet warning these little henchmen of the Dictatorship such as Alberto Andrade to respect the rights of the workers, otherwise the people have the right to carry out revolutionary justice.
ALTO HUALLAGA. HEAD OF PARAMILITARY DEATH SQUAD EXECUTED. On April 5th, 1996, at 10:30 PM, Julio del Castillo Rodriguez, a ruthless head of the Army run paramilitary organization in the locality of Naranjillo (Comite of Self-Defense or Rondas), was executed. As a result, all authorities appointed by Fujimori resigned and fled in terror (La Republica, April 10, 1996)
STATE OF EMERGENCY IS EXPANDED COUNTRYWIDE. Because of the bold advances of the People's War led by the PCP, the regime expanded the state of emergency in two departments, 10 provinces and 3 districts. The provinces of Oxapampa (Department of Pasco), Satipo and Chanchamayo (Department of Junin), Castrovirreyna and Huaytara (Huancavelica), Humanga, Cangallo and La Mar (Department of Acacia), the districts of Quinbiri and Pichari in the Province of La Convention (Department of Cask.) Also the entire Department of Huanuco (except minor areas), the entire Department of San Martin, the district of Yurimaguas in the Department of Loreto, and lastly the provinces of Andahuaylas and Chincheros in the Department of Apurimac, are under military curfews and the total suspension of constitutional rights (El Mundo, April 4, 1996.)
IN HUANUCO, NINE SOLDIERS DESERTED FROM THE ARMY AND ENROLLED IN THE PCP.
On April 13TH, 1996, nine soldiers of the reactionary Armed Forces, deserted the PCP with explosives and several weapons, and requested their enrollment in the People's Army of Liberation. The desertion occurred in the Andean locality of Uco, in the border of the departments of Ancash and Huanuco. (Expresso, April 16, 1996)
FASCIST REGIME VIOLATES ITS CONSTITUTION. The Kangaroo Congress passed a law modifying the Citizens Participation Law that authorizes holding referendums in cases of national interest, such as the privatization of strategic industries. This is one more hallmark of a tyranny that does not even respect its own laws given by decree. Previously, this run away pseudo-Congress (a formality of the dictatorship) passed the Law of Impunity and the Cantuta Law.
LAMBAYEQUE: PCP SEIZED THE CITY OF OLMOS. On April 7th, 1996, the PCP led People's Army of Liberation (EPL) defeated the reactionary army of Fujimori and the local paramilitary, and took control of the locality of Capilla Torres. The people cheered the approximately 50 guerrillas, made up of young men and women who entered the city, singing the Communist International and shouting revolutionary slogans such as, "Viva el President Gonzalo", "Prepare the Strategic Offensive", "Down with the Genocidal Dictatorship of Fujimori." The health center run by the police was seized, and several government businesses were confiscated. The community organized a support rally. Two heads of the local paramilitary Rondas, who committed crimes on behalf of the army, were captured and put in trial by the community. After long deliberations, both of the paramilitary La heads were executed. Several youngsters voluntarily joined the Maoist guerrillas [Republica, April 8, 1996]
FUJIMORI'S "PROSPERITY": A NATION OF TUBERCULOSIS (TB)
Estimates of the Pan-American Health Organization indicates that TB infection was the cause for the death of 75,000 people in Latin America in 1995. The same year 400,000 people were