MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Peruvian president Humala wants the US as observer of the Pacific Alliance
Peruvian president Ollanta Humala said he favoured the incorporation of the United States as observer to the Alliance of the Pacific, a free trade, pro-business and open market group made up of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIn 2011 after Humala beat my guy PPK I honestly thought that Peru was finished. Boy was I wrong. Humala has blossomed into an astute intelligent charismatic and mature statesman, one that Peruvians and the rest of the Alliance members can be proud of . Good one Ollanta you're the Man!
Jun 13th, 2013 - 11:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems less and less countries in SA want to ignore the evil empire, save for the few communists countries.......mmmmm....who may they be?
Jun 13th, 2013 - 11:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lol
@1 I won't go that far and say Peru should be proud of Humala because I honestly have not been reading enough about Peruvian politics and the man himself, but in Brazil Lula adopted this same charismatic “soft” leftism and little by little he began to show what he was all about yet maintaining the good guy image to the majority of the country and to the rest of the world with an impressive industry of defamation against previous governments and opposition. Everyone outside Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia knew what their presidents were - except for the people in it. In Brazil and outside of it people are completly clueless of what was going on . He became a myth, a star, he is already on the History books as the Savior, literaly. So maybe Humala could be the Lula of Peru as Obama is surely Lula of the US.
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Jun 14th, 2013 - 01:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0I agree, only I would say “blossomed” implies something slower that what really happened. Humala did a 180 in the blink of an eye. He about faced so quickly that the Peruvian electorate don’t know what happened.
@ #4.... Obama did the same thing in the US; a 180 flip even before he began his term. Liars, thieves and corrupt oligarchs flock together.
Jun 14th, 2013 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0HuffPo May 29, 2013 - “Conservative as well as socialist senators in Colombia have clearly stated that free trade agreements such as the Pacific Alliance and other FTAs in the past have damaged the agricultural industry in the country.....”
The LatAm oligarchs win again, and the common people get screwed yet again. Nothing new here, except the name of the abusing organization.
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Jun 14th, 2013 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Obama: I’m no fan.
Colombia: maybe agriculture has been damaged, so what. That’s the nature of competition, you win some you lose some, you up the game.
Oligarchs: there is no doubt they have increased their wealth. The number of Chilean billionaires in the Forbes list doubled last year, again, so what? Average earnings have doubled in the last decade. The PA and other FTAs benefit all. CORFO (the business and enterprise agency) runs workshops, seminars, mentoring and provides funding to support small/medium businesses, especially export oriented enterprise – the opportunities are there for everyone.
To limit trade in order to stop the rich being so rich would be to cut off one’s nose to spite ones face.
Ahhhhh Condorito, I can see that you are one of those who hopes (way deep down hidden inside of your secret self) to be an oligarch, but are many hundreds of times more likely to be hit by lightening. And, you also clearly subscribe to the Reaganite Trickle Down” Theory, that has even been dispelled by its arcvhitect, David Stockman. Ummmm.
Jun 14th, 2013 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the mean time, the concentration of money and power in the hands of the few will have an unanticipated negative effect on your (and my) children and grandchildren with a less violent, but no less harmful form of collateral damage, that you may not actually like very much. But, hey, then you'll agree with the lovely Marie Antoinette, who so joyously exclaimed “Let them eat cake”.
No, I have no plans currently to become an Oligarch. However, seeing as about every 1 in a million citizens is a billionaire and I have seldom heard of a compatriot hit by lightening, your assertion of “hundreds of times more likely to be hit by lightening” must be wildly inaccurate.
Jun 14th, 2013 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don’t care if the richest get richer, why should I. What would the objection be? Envy? Not a good measure of progress.
In my lifetime I have seen percentage of people living in poverty drop from half the population to 15%. Still a long way to go, but that is better progress than most. I fully understand why Humala wants to follow the same route.
Brazil´s and Argentina´s short-sighted leadership destroyed the promise of Mercosur, its dream, instead they transformed it into a true nightmare for Paraguay and sometimes for Uruguay as well, by imposing their interests based on the weight of their economy. The Pacific Alliance can be fully explained in light of Lula´s arrogant behaviour towards Colombia, Chile, México and other countries in the region, it can also be explained in the light of Dilma´s absence of geopolitical vision, in the light of both Nestor and Cristina Kirchners.
Jun 15th, 2013 - 02:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0And it can also be explained by that fatal blow to the Mercosur when Brazil and Argentina illegally turned Venezuela into a full member, without Paraguay´s approval, in violation of their own statutes, showing the world how Mercosur had truly become nothing but a circus, and it needed the perfect clowns, Chavez and Maduro, to be complete.
Peru took the initiative, probably because they did not want to belong to a club where they would be treated as a second class member state, as has been the case with both Paraguay and Uruguay in Mercosur, and Chile, Colombia and Mexico joined, and what a serious, compromised, equal, fair and coordinated effort they have put together. Now Costa Rica has joined, Guatemala, Honduras and others will also join soon, because they know they will be treated equally. That´s too much to ask in Mercosur, and that´s why it is crumbling today.
All that talk about oligarchs. Some people really should remove the blinkers and have a look at the oligarchs now ruling Venezuela and Argentina.
Jun 16th, 2013 - 12:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Amazing the increase in wealth that many of these politicians and leaders have amassed.
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