From Al's blog:
Antauro Humala, the retired Peruvian military officer who led a courageous uprising in 2000 against the dictator Alberto Fujimori, told reporters today that Peru's President Alejandro Toledo - another bat-boy of Washington - could fall the same way that Bolivia's Goni fell.
Toledo, he said, is "playing with the patience" of the people, has only 14-percent support ("the lowest favorability average in the history of the Republic"), and, similar to the disgraced Bolivian-Floridian, has ignored the demands of social movements.
And this one that tells us where those "bat boys" can flee.
The land of my birth used to be a haven for poor and repressed people to come seek freedom. Now it's a place where the poor and repressed are rounded up by the Border Patrol, while the gates fly open to the super-rich oligarchs and leaders of repressive regimes.
And so it was, again, this week, with the opening of those gates to the disgraced Bolivian ex-president, Goni The Butcher, chased from power after ordering massacres of his own people.
U.S. Customs Service spokesman Barry Morrissey said the former president was admitted at the State Department's direction through a "public-interest pardon."
...More from Oligarchy-landia: Miami, more and more, resembles the last days of Ancient Rome. Now, every tin-horn US-propped oligarchy on earth has a consulate there dedicated to the hard work of attending cocktail parties and rubbing elbows with political appointees and party hacks from around the world. The Tanzanian Consulate is run, get this, out of a Delray Beach travel agency. Goni should sign up immediately for the "frequent-flee-ers" mileage card.
Monday, October 20, 2003
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