Ollanta Humala- Peru's new president.

[ComradeMan]

Opinions?

Centre-left.
Party: Peruvian Nationalist Party

"The Nationalist Party itself describes its ideology as standing on the four pillars of Anti-imperialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-imperialism), Democratic republicanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism), "Andean-Amazonic Socialism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism)" and Latinamericanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_integration). It calls José Carlos Mariátegui (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Carlos_Mari%C3%A1tegui), Jorge Basadre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Basadre), and Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Ra%C3%BAl_Haya_de_la_Torre) its ideological forethinkers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_Nationalist_Party"

Some background:

"Ollanta Humala is the son of Isaac Humala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Humala), an ethnic indigenous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples) lawyer, member of the Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Peru_%E2%80%93_Red_Fatherland), and ideological leader of the Ethnocacerista (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movimiento_Etnocacerista) movement. Ollanta's mother is Elena Tasso.[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollanta_Humala#cite_note-3) He is the brother of Antauro Humala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antauro_Humala), now serving a 25 years prison sentence for kidnapping 17 Police officers for 3 days and killing 4 of them.[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollanta_Humala#cite_note-4) Humala was born in Peru and attended the Japanese-Peruvian school La Union in Lima. He began his military career in 1982 when he entered the Chorrillos Military School (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorrillos_Military_School). In his military career, Humala was also involved in the two major Peruvian conflicts of the past 20 years, the battle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_conflict_in_Peru) against the insurgent organization Shining Path (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_Path) and the 1995 Cenepa War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenepa_War) with Ecuador (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador). In 1992 Humala served in Tingo María (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tingo_Mar%C3%ADa) fighting the remnants of the Shining Path and in 1995 he served in the Cenepa War on the border with Ecuador.[6]"" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollanta_Humala#cite_note-5)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollanta_Humala#2011_election
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollanta_Humala#cite_note-5)


Spanish info
http://www.partidonacionalistaperuano.net/

[Rafiq]

Nationalist party sounds a little quasi fascist.

[OhYesIdid]

Nationalist party sounds a little quasi fascist.

"military career [...] fighting with the Shining Path"
yeah, let's just hope he's got a solid inner circle. National Liberation is not ideal, but it is not necessarily a disaster. Not necessarily.

[RGacky3]

Just because they call themselves socialist does'nt mean much, everyone in europe is a social-democrat, everyone in latin America is a social-democrat also, socialism is a popular concept, so don't look at that, look at their actual policies.

[hatzel]

Anybody have the foggiest what exactly "Andean-Amazonic Socialism" is? I mean, other than just Socialism in the Andes and/or Amazonia? :confused:

[ComradeMan]

Anybody have the foggiest what exactly "Andean-Amazonic Socialism" is? I mean, other than just Socialism in the Andes and/or Amazonia? :confused:

I'm not sure but here's an article

http://sdonline.org/51/law-of-the-jungle-in-peru-indigenous-amazonian-uprising-against-neoliberalism/

[Ocean Seal]

Anybody have the foggiest what exactly "Andean-Amazonic Socialism" is? I mean, other than just Socialism in the Andes and/or Amazonia? :confused:
I assume that its something similar to Arab socialism at least in ideology. There's a strong sentiment of indigenous nationalism from both Ollanta and his father. And of course there is the idea of anti-imperialism, and nationalization of Peru's vast mineral resources for the good of the nation. I'd say that these guys are more or less left-nationalist (or at least were in the prior election when pro-Chavez rhetoric reigned). So Ollanta today is a toned down Chavez.


Originally Posted by Rafiq
Nationalist party sounds a little quasi fascist.
Its not like the BNP where its about keeping the country free from immigrants and expanding the power of those priviledged, but rather using nationalist appeal to improve the country. Somewhat like Black power vs. White power.

[Aspiring Humanist]

Nationalist? No

Fuck the Shining Path though

[ComradeMan]

I think we ought to be careful with the use of "nationalist" within a Latin-America context- it doesn't necessarily have the same connotations as it does in Europe and is usually left-nationalism connected to indigenous rights or an indigenous perspective such as the Zapatistas etc.

I'd be curious to know what some of the rather dubious apologisers/closet supporters of the Sendero Luminoso make of this.