Ollanta Humala: a Montesinos' accomplice poised to become Peru's president
By Aleksander Boyd
London 22.04.06 | Ollanta Humala, former Lt. Col. who rebelled against the regime of Fujimori in late 2000, appears poised to become Peru's next president. His brother Antauro Humala -a.k.a. "Corpus Christi", notoriously known and feared in the late 80ies due to human rights violations inflicted upon his countrymen, led another unsuccessful military uprise in 2005. Both men were, according to former police chief Marco Miyashiro, accessories in creating the chaotic conditions that, ultimately, led to Vladimiro Montesinos' escape to Venezuela aboard the Karisma on October 29 2000.
As is often the case the international media is yet to inform about this, very worrying, issue. Montesinos, former spy chief for Fujimori and wanted criminal, was arrested in June 2001 in Caracas, Venezuela, where he had been enjoying protection of high officials of the Venezuelan corrupt administration.
But some of his close collaborators have reappeared in Peru's politics. Agencia Peru reports that Adrián Antonio Villafuerte Macha and Estuardo Antonio Loyola Machado, former inconditionals of Montesinos, are behind Ollanta Humala's presidential bid. Villafuerte Macha is meant to be in charge of Humala's campaign headquarters whilst Loyola Machado advices him of PR stuff.
Agencia Peru has investigated even further, revealing that the military uprising of the Humalas in 2000 was nothing but a PR stunt, in which, not only Ollanta Humala maintained the troops that accompanied him in the rebellion totally oblivious of what his true intentions were, but more importantly, very close associates of Montesinos, Generals Abraham Cano Angulo and Carlos Bardales Angulo, were part of the plot.
Almost a carbon copy of Chavez's ascent to power, nearly six years on Ollanta Humala is about to become Peru's president. As his Venezuela revolutionary idol and benefactor did, Humala has promised to summon a National Constituent Assembly once in office that, surely, will do away with institutions, judiciary, elected officials and constituted powers in order to cement the Andean expansion of the Bolivarian revolution. It's a tried and tested method.
Montesinos will rejoice, but to ensure that everything goes according to plan Hugo Chavez dispatched his Minister of Elections to Peru to observe the electoral process...
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