Who Should I Trust?

Humala's end-of-campaign rally: "Let's stop the return of a dictatorship"

“Do not be scared of change,” Ollanta Humala said.

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It is ludicrous to have a murderous and disgraced two-bit soldier, with a criminal history (who has no governmental experience nor record) and is an amigo of dictators, condemning dictators. Humala's only claim to fame is an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow a, democratically elected, Peruvian president. Humala surrounds himself at rallies with two-face hypocrites Vargas Llosa and Alejandro Toledo.

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"Humala, a dangerous far-left fascist-montesinista, as Gustavo Gorriti and Alvaro Vargas Llosa among others, called him in the last election ..."

In a radio address Ollanta Humala encouraged his brother Antauro's attempt to trigger an uprising against Toledo. Four police officers were killed, and Antauro Humala is prison serving a 25-year term.

The readers of “Ollanta” were called to make a coup and overthrow Toledo’s administration and it was sustained that Toledo’s government had lost democratic legitimacy. Violence was justified in shameless terrorist language. Lieutenant colonel Ollanta Humala was on the payroll of Toledo’s administration during his stay in Paris and Seoul. Consequently, lieutenant colonel Ollanta Humala was a traitor, a criminal officer, a disguised coup supporter conspiring actively, every two weeks, against Peruvian democracy. At the same time he had the nerve to collect his salary, in Paris and Seoul, from the same democracy he wanted to dynamite. During the years 2002, 2003 and 2004 when the poisonous rag “Ollanta” demanded through terrifying headlines a popular insurgency and overthrow of Toledo’s legitimate government.

Amigos of Political Expediency or Corruption?

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Always be afraid of change that is proposed to a successfully functioning and growing economy and society. Changing of the constitution? Canceling or "renegotiating" (as Humala's revised statement now says) hard fought free trade agreements? A fondness for nationalization of free market companies? An affinity for a nationalistic quasi-isolationist economic posture rather than a world market view? We want this kind of change to policies that have reduced poverty, grown the middle class and lifted Peru to near First World status? I know I don't.

If it is so impossible, as some historically naïve Humala supporters say, for Humala to implement his deleterious policies, why is the congress (futility in my estimation) trying to make laws to protect the status quo democracy and government funds in the case of a Humala presidency? There is no law that can't be undone. Radical change never ends well, especially for the poor who are Humala's biggest supporters. Prudent governance modifies and fine-tunes in incremental steps. 

Humala is a man who has demonstrated every reason in the world not to trust him. It is inexplicable how anyone, outside of greedy self-serving ignorance, a deranged hatred of a free capitalist society or an irrational phobia of long past disassociated political events, could still believe the despicable Ollanta Humala. Maintain the sanity, maintain the prosperity and maintain democracy. Vote for the rational governance of Peru, Keiko.

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