(WMR)—The CIA not only wanted to deny the presidency to Peruvian nationalist Ollanta Humala, who was defeated in the presidential election five years ago by Wall Street favorite Alan Garcia, but wanted to ensure that dual U.S-Peruvian citizen Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a former World Bank official, former Peruvian finance minister, and executive with arch-vulture capitalist Felix Rohatyn’s Rohatyn Group investment fund in New York, beat out Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of the jailed former president and CIA cypher, Alberto Fujimori.
The Rohatyn Group was formed in 2003 by former JP Morgan executives.
With 80 percent of the vote counted, Fujimori held a 3-point lead over Kuczynski. The run-off election between Humala and Fujimori is scheduled for June 5.
Although he has moderated his tone since the last presidential election in 2006, Humala can be counted in the progressive Latin American leadership camp, his policies now between those of Brazilian President Dilma Roussef and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. However much he has moderated his tone and policies, Humala remains a worry to the Obama administration, which has gone beyond the Bush administration in engaging in political chicanery south-of-the-border. Obama’s early support for a CIA- and Pentagon-led coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and an attempted coup against Ecuador’s Rafael Correa are hallmarks of Obama’s hostile Nixonian attitude toward nationalist and progressive elected governments in Latin America.
The darling of the international elites, former presidential candidate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, was quick to state that a choice between Humala, who he accuses of being “another Chavez,” and Fujimori is like a choice between AIDS and terminal cancer. Kuczynski, who also served with the International Monetary Fund in Washington and Kuhn Loeb Investment Bank in New York, is the kind of candidate favored by Nobel Peace Prize-laden elitists like Vargas Llosa.
However, the CIA clearly will support “terminal cancer” over “AIDS” as it seeks to protect the interests of Wall Street and the global oligarchs. The CIA enjoyed a long history with Fujimori’s father and his chief of intelligence, Vladimoro Montesinos. Both Alberto Fujimori and Montesinos are serving prison sentences in Peru for human rights violations and other crimes.
On November 8, 2005, WMR reported: “Montesinos was code named ‘The Doctor’ by the CIA and was well known as a facilitator for U.S. weapons smuggling and drug deals involving the Bush crime family. The CIA paid Montesinos at least $10 million between 1990 and 2000. The payments began just after the elder Bush launched his 1990 “Andean Initiative” to counter ‘drug proliferation’ in the region. The Andean Initiative actually saw an expansion of coca growing fields in the region. Montesinos deposited $264 million in bank accounts in Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, the United States, and Panama.”
On September 8, 2010, WMR reported: “During his 10-year rule, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and his intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, thought to be a CIA asset, reportedly received USAID funds to put down the Shining Path and Tupac Amaru guerrilla movements.”
Like Chavez, Correa, and Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, Humala’s main strength comes from Peru’s long-disenfranchised and impoverished indigenous community. The business elite of mainly European roots, has historically opposed the rise to power of indigenous leaders in Latin America and they have received the firm backing of Western corporations and their CIA enforcers. Although former President Alejandro Toledo is of indigenous descent, he only placed fourth in the first-round because native Peruvians understand that he sold out while president to the World Bank and other capitalist contrivances. Humala edged out Toledo among the native electorate in the Peruvian highlands. Toledo only managed to garner 15 percent of the vote in the first round.
Humala is an outspoken critic of the policies of Chile’s right-wing billionaire President Sebastian Pinera, who Obama lauded in Santiago during a recent trip to Latin America.
Rather than see another progressive leader take the helm in Latin America, the CIA and its cyphers, USAID and the Soros non-governmental organizations (NGOs), will begin to pump money and other support into the campaign of right-winger Keiko Fujimori. Plan A was Kuczynski but since he was barely edged out for second place by Fujimori, Langley’s money will be put on the daughter of their one-time top agent-of-influence in Peru.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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