Narco News 2001
Narco News Ecuador
Correspondent takes on...
The CIA Government
in Peru
By P.J. Peralta
February
6, 2001
The
Flight of Fujimori-Montesinos has left
an embarrassing debris.
Money laundering accounts for billions
of dollars, thousands of compromising documents and 700 video
films of about two thousand politicians, journalists, judges,
congressmen, military and police officers caught in the act of
receiving bribes and giving their allegiance to the reign of
corruption of the Fujimori-Montesinos regime - which dominated
Peru during a decade with the promotion and assistance of the
CIA - constitute an embarrassing legacy. Nobody knows what to
do with them.
The Weisman Congressional Commission,
after three months of investigations, has given its preliminary
report (Feb.6, 2001), sounded too cautious and failed to divulge
more of what is already known in Peru. In the final conclusion,
Weisman explained that the materials were so profuse that much
more time was needed to investigate them all.
The daily El Comercio proposed
the same day that Peru ask the United Nations help to set up
a "Truth Commission" in order to investigate all the
human rights violations committed during the reign of terror
and corruption of Fujimori-Montesinos. A general consensus seems
to creep on in order to restrict the investigations and avoid
divulging the whole truth, for there are, simply, too many people
involved, among them, most of the leaders of the power elite
of Peru.
Hundreds of people have been tortured,
assassinated and disappeared, including several members of the
press; the media were censured, restricted and forced to cooperate
in the support of the government. But establishing a UN Truth
Commission, in that type of environment, seems to be another
artifice in order to disperse the evil fumes left by the sudden
flight of President Alberto Fujimori and his security adviser
Vladimiro Montesinos.
The realm of corruption and blackmail
that Fujimori-Montesinos managed to establish in Peru is a case
common to other Latin American regimes.
The sudden flight of Montesinos has allowed
perusing into how this type of government works. The banking
accounts already frozen of Montesinos approach one billion dollars,
but congressmen in Peru have expressed that the accounts of Montesinos
may be ten times more, that is near ten billion dollars. If that
would be the case, the question is obvious:
How in hell could Montesinos accumulate such amounts of money
in a poor country like Peru, with a per capita income of about
$1,400 US dollars a year?
The answer is drugs.
Montesinos
was an agent for the CIA and he was
in charge of directing the "official" exports of drugs
from Peru. Years ago, he was formally accused by a drug capo,
"Vaticano", of collecting bribes in order to allow
the traffic. Later, the private cartels were beheaded and Montesinos
took full control of the "intelligent" cartel.
The CIA used the Peruvian connection in
order to exchange drugs for firearms from Colombia. El Comercio
of Feb. 6, 2001, reports that a plot for selling arms from Jordan
to the FARC in Colombia, which was eventually unveiled in 1999,
was a CIA plot to arm the guerrillas and propitiate this way
the signing of the "Colombia Plan".
The plot would appear preposterous, if
Peruvian Army officers had not confirmed that "at least
10,000 Kalashnikov rifles" were provided to the FARC this
way. Furthermore, this was not in any way a particular instance.
For years, denunciations have been made of the traffic of arms
and dynamite from Ecuador to the guerrillas in Colombia in exchange
of drugs, which Ecuadorian authorities have duly protected.
It is obvious to think that this traffic
has also been protected by the US agencies.
Peruvian Congressman Robinson Rivadeneira
confirmed his accusation to El Comercio, According to
this representative of "Peru Posible", the party led
by Alejandro Toledo, the CIA intention was to increase the firepower
capacity of the guerrillas "in order to obtain the approval
for the Plan Colombia". At the same time, the President
of the Peruvian Congress, Carlos Ferroso, stated that the CIA
knows where Montesinos is hiding, but the Agency will not give
up its man. These are, however, the first instances in which
political leaders of Peru openly dared to pronounce the sacred
word - the CIA. Formerly, to say CIA was taken just as saying
a profanity.
What has been revealed so far only confirms
what informed people in Latin America already knew: that the
CIA and the DEA are conducting covert actions that include the
creation of a monopoly of drug trade; that for achieving this
purpose they have gone to great lengths in order to establish
totally adept regimes on the basis of corruption and blackmail;
that these regimes put government officials, politicians, judges,
military and police men, journalists, just about everybody that
can be influential and useful, on the take. If these policies
of the CIA have other secret agendas with regard to Latin America,
we can only guess, but what is already happening is terrible
enough.
All this is done with the outmost efficiency,
employing the up-to-date surveillance technology. Credit should
be given to the CIA as the most incredible and powerful intelligence
organization, which tentacles reach out to a hundred and fifty
countries. Its complexity is appalling. Its achievements totally
defeated the once powerful Soviet Union, which is now a bankrupt
state driven by thousands of mafias. Its ability to organize
corruption has been shown almost by accident in the case of Peru.
In his abrupt escape, Montesinos left behind all his treasures.
We can only conclude that similar actions
are being conducted in Colombia, Ecuador, Brasil, Venezuela and
any other country where duty calls. Nevertheless, failures occur,
as the one in Peru, which could be adduced as being caused by
the excessive greed and stupidity of Montesinos. Another failure
is Chile, where after 27 years, details are being revealed about
the "desaparecidos"; hundreds, maybe thousands of people
were savagely killed -eyes gouged out with knives, maxillary
bones broken, shot in the genitals and then finally killed and
thrown from planes into the sea. The now famous "Calvacade
of Death" happened after General Augusto Pinochet was placed
in power in Chile with the help of 400 CIA agents and about $5
million US dollars. The embarrassing situation that now emerges
seems to be another small mistake of the CIA: to give total power
to a lunatic. Maybe in another twenty years, we will learn more
details about how the CIA conducts the present government in
Latin America.
P.J. Peralta
Feb. 6, 2001
Refusing to Wait
20 Years to Publish the News