The protests that shake Peru since last December and that have unleashed an unusual wave of violence in the country, with the death of fifty people, are being induced by the leaders of the extreme left who call to end the Government through arms. And all this occurs both from within and from outside the country.
At the end of last week two prominent leaders of the Militarized Communist Party of Peru, Comrade Olga (Tarcela Loya Vílchez) and Comrade Vilma (Florabel Vargas Figueroa) to address the “proletarians of all the oppressed nations of the world” and invoke the fall of the “Military Fascist Government of Peru.” They ignored that the current president, In Boluartebelongs to a political party, Free Peruof Marxist socialist origin and to which his predecessor already belonged, Pedro Castillountil his attempted coup of the last december 7.
The militarized Communist Party of Peru is a cleavage of the terrorist organization Shining Path, the main perpetrator of the largest number of terrorist crimes and massacres in Peru. It is located in the VRAEM (Valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantarovalle rivers), which includes several rivers with high child malnutrition and poverty, which are used by far-left terrorists and drug traffickers as the scene of their battle against the Government.
military puppet
For the two communist leaders mentioned, Comrade Olga and her partner, Comrade Vilma, Pedro Castillo himself was already a puppet of the military, especially of General Manuel Gómez de la Torre, head of the Peruvian Armed Forces. “Pedro Castillo Terrones is a traitor, he did not fulfill his electoral promise (…) This government is fascist,” says comrade Olga, irritated by the anti-drug operations that the Peruvian government carried out in the region of VRAEMvalley where the production of coca plantations and where Shining Path and the Militarized Communist Party of Peru have their main feud.
Comrade Olga, in a five-minute speech, calls for the Peruvian revolution while insulting the Peruvian Justice, the forces of order and harangues the masses to continue pressing to overthrow the current Government.
“Down with the military government, led by the genocidal of unarmed masses, the cachaco (police agent) Manuel Gómez de la Torre. Down with the new ruler of the day, the fascist and careerist, the puppet of the cachacos and polizontes (police officers), Dina Boluarte Segarra. Dina Boluarte careerist, vulgar, defector, puppet and ruler of Fujimonticism and the extreme right. Reject the state of emergency and the curfew because it is to assassinate the people and leave the murderers of the children of the Peruvian people unpunished”, yells comrade Olga.
He ends his rant by vindicating the figure of China and its current president, Xi Jinping: “Down with the criminalization of just popular protests, down with the criminalization and imputation of terrorists and drug traffickers to the masses. Honor and glory to the always alive and present comrade Raúl. Long live Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, Xiism, mainly Xiism. Putting Xiism as the command today of the world socialist proletarian revolution.
Ask Putin for help
Even in acts of street violence, groups of protesters have been seen carrying banners addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the message “Putin, help, they are killing us for defending our homeland.” Paradoxical appeal to those who forget that in Ukraine thousands of people are victims of Putin’s invasion precisely for trying to defend the Ukrainian homeland.
But subversive movements are taking place not only from within Peru to end the current government. The governments of Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina and Colombia, in the hands of the left, do not recognize Boluarte as president of Peru. Cuba, for its part, is accused of agitating the masses from within Peru after the dispatch a year ago of Carlos Rafael Zamora, a Cuban intelligence officer who would have been collaborating in the recruitment of agents to destabilize democracy. Some see an attempt by the Latin American populist left to place Peru in the orbit of authoritarian socialist regimes such as Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia.
Accusation of Evo Morales
It is in this last country, Bolivia, where the confrontations between the president, Luis Arce, and his predecessor, Evo Morales, would have found a meeting point. The current Peruvian government suspects that the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, is responsible for sending weapons and provocateurs from Bolivia to Peru and for promoting the new independence movements in the border region between the two countries. In fact, it is in the city of Puno where there have been numerous incidents that have ended with dozens of police officers injured or dead, such as a 29-year-old agent who was shot by a mob of 80 protesters and burned alive on January 9.
According to the Peruvian constitution, President Boluarte should finish Castillo’s term, that is, in 2026. Initially, she promised to advance the elections to 2024, but the extreme left is not satisfied. She wants him to resign, immediately, shut down congress and hold elections for a constituent assembly to prepare a new constitution.
Meanwhile, roadblocks continue, assaults on institutions, destruction of infrastructure, as well as attacks on police stations and a multitude of attempts to seize airports by force and paralyze land communications. The instability and widespread chaos in the country are being taken advantage of by the most radical forces of the left to destroy Peruvian democracy and try to replace it with an authoritarian socialist regime.
