Mario Vargas Llosa


I know well the Peruvian Amazonia, where I have been often and where three of my novels happen, and have seen closely the terrible living conditions of his native communities. From the XIXth century, when the climax of the rubber, the natives of the forest have been ill-treated in a wicked way, expelled from his grounds by merchants esclavistas, decimated in the caucherías, and, later, brutalizados for adventurers without conscience who were looking for gold and other metals, for the drug traffickers, for the guerrillas and by the police, and always forgotten by the governments of the Republic, none of which ever worried about the luck of this minority that was representing very little from the electoral point of view.
That's why, between all the regions of Peru, none as the Amazonia needs with more urgency that the lawlessness and the "law of the forest" that there reign are replaced by a just and stable legal order that guarantees to the native communities his rights and opens to them the opportunities of progress and progress that only the economic development – that is to say the multiplication of private enterprises and national and foreign investments - and the democratic legality can obtain. In the regions of Peru where it has happened, as in Lima and in the whole region of the coast and in many places of the northern saw, the progress in the latter years has been spectacular, it has reduced the poverty levels, generated the highest employment rates and, thanks to the mining canon provided to the provinces of a few revenues that they never had in the past. From this there have just resigned in a suicidal way the Amazon communities that continued the retrograde slogans of Alberto Pizango.

Not only he owes to be rubbing the hands now, in his Nicaraguan exile. Also Fidel Castro and the big winner of this operation that is, of course, commander Hugo Chávez. Peru is one of two thorns that has dives in the gullet the Venezuelan commander. Other one, Colombia. For his sleep megalomaniacs of turning into the new Bolivar, in South America it has Bolivia already kidnapped, semikidnapped to Ecuador, neutralized to Argentina that, anyhow, in the rotten pan in which the husbands Kirchner have turned to this ancient big country, might keep on decomposing up to falling down tied of feet and hands in his arms. Brazil is too big and distant to be able to swallow it, but crafty Lula, who has her own project – at light years of that of Chávez - will never do shade to him, one nor will face him, while it could extract profit of the Venezuelan petrodollars that the strong man of Caracas wastes to tact.