Political Analyst
and elections The 2011 Peru
Jorge Bedregal La Vera - Peru
Jose Carlos Brazen Luque - Mexico
Silvio Rendon-NewYork
Loarte-Lima Percy
Arturo Quispe Lazaro, Lima
Jorge Yeshayahu Gonzales-Lara, New York
Enrique Soria, New Jersey Journalist
Enrique Soria, New Jersey Journalist
A look at the Peruvian elections
By Jorge Vera Bedregal The
Special to Long Island A Day
I borrow the title of the magnificent novel by Jorge Salazar because I think it best describes the political atmosphere that has been unleashed in our country as a result of the election results recent. This process will be nutritious grass for future research by historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists. But I'm sure some interpretations could try to explain what happened on this historic Sunday of April.
The first lesson is clear and unambiguous: the political right is definitely Peruvian stagnant and unable to recycle soon, what has become an area of \u200b\u200bunequal abilities to the limit. Of the mediocre more pedestrian to the most outrageous and blatant racist and exclusionary, a profound ignorance of the country and its citizens. Democracy, for this sector is only half almost undesirable where people should be first and foremost, consumers and users febrile credit bondage. The consequence of this atrophy is a myopic inability to get a single bid, strong, rational and democratic.
The second is a bit more elusive. The left has been in a speech radicaloide and socializing the possibility of recovering lost rights. However, there is evidence that people distinguish very well to the left candidate Humala static and conservative. Interpret this as a triumph of the Left parties is frankly childish. However, it is undeniable that there is among many Peruvians an almost obsessive need for change, caused by decades of policies that have sung rockers development and growth are not perceived as their own and that are foreign. This need has been effectively capitalized by Humala and there we have the results.
As a member of the academy, it is urgent to make a big mea culpa. Democrats have dropped their guard and believed that a return to past was impossible and that both authoritarian proposals as violent, could not take place in a scenario where we have a dictator in prison and terrorist clique in the same destination. This myopia is tragic because we failed to see that there were millions of new voters for whom the concepts of "democracy," "human rights", "subversion", "corruption", "citizenship" had very little sense.
Now begins a campaign that promises to be dirty and violent. Ollanta Humala will have to soften speeches and proposals to try to convince supporters of Toledo and APRA militants base. Keiko Fujimori will be devoted to float in the belief that supporters of Castro and Kuczynski vote without much discomfort from his proposal. Will the campaign of fears and ghosts. You try to remember the past criminals and convicts serving sentences. The other candidates try to raise the anti-apocalyptic levels persistently reminding socialistic experiments of Venezuela and Bolivia.
Ghosts are now invading the everyday life of people. Social networks have been filled with racist and aggressive. The fact that there are people who think differently is a reason to be automatically qualified moron. Difficult times that are coming to Peru. Democracy is at risk and urgently need to review our mistakes as a nation and insist that any development proposal is unfailingly to bridge the social divide in our country is mind-boggling proportions. While exclusion is maintained at these levels, any political project is necessarily a continuation of evil and sentence patterns to repeat certain scenarios for the violent and authoritarian proposals are healthy.
For The New York Peruvian Diaspora
Lima April 10, 2011 
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