Alan Garcia has been among the worse presidents in Peru history. Never popularly elected (with 50% or more of the vote) and always forced into a run-off, during his first term in office García's misrule was marked by bouts of hyperinflation, which reached 7,649% in 1990, and had a cumulative total of 2,200,200% over the subsequent five years. This created an environment that led to the unfortunate rise of Alberto Fujimori (who, when ot raiding the Peru National Treasury of millions of dollars (USA S) to send his children to American schools--daughter, Keiko, now a member of the Peru Congress and running for President of Peru to pardon her father who was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison for crimes against humanity, was sending death squads to silence his opponents--especially students and professors). García went into exile to Colombia in 1992, and later to France after Fujimori's auto-coup during which the military raided his house.

As an American native (born in Iowa) who fled the USA with the rise of the neocons and W Bush's desire to advance a global war of "Gog and Megog" with his lapdog Tony Blair in their wrongful invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., I lived in Peru and watched the carnage where Garcia's thugs (national police) shot men who were either unarmed or carrying spears, with the "guards" chanting "shoot him in the head" of those laying prone on the ground while others threw women and children from cliffs (there are a host of photos on the internet of this massacre)--all in Garcia's quest to wrest the Amazon lands from its inhabitants and occupants to further the nefarious NAFTA (TLC) goals that would further enrich the white supremacist/racists who control the government and its major industries and businesses.

Alberto Pizango, the leader of the country's Amazon Indians, was one of the few level and sane voices demanding rights of the Amazonian people to determine their own destiny and not to be shoved out by Shell Oil and other megacountry controllers. Yehude Simon attempted to appease Alberto Pizango with tokenism, but that stopped after the massacre of the Amazonians by Garcia's guards and his police. Pizango is one of Peru's greatest men and should return, while it is time that Garcia once more flee from the nation he has too often attempted to destroy. Peru will remain impoverished until its education system is overhauled dramatically (I have a nephew here who has had four years of "English" and can read--with poor pronunciation--words but has no idea of what they mean, has no grammar, and cannot write a coherent sentence; another nephew who is in secondary schools and is still learning basic mathematics, etc.), jobs are created that respect the rights of workers (at present while the law mandates an 8 hour work day, most laborers in the fields, banks, malls, etc. work 12-14 hours a day and make marginal salaries/income), and the natural resources of Peru are used first for Peruanos and not for exportation.

Alan Garcia Perez has a long criminal history, having bankrupted the nation of Peru with an inflation of 7649% (with an accummulative total over 5 years of 2,200,200%), and a record of political assassinations: from the Accomarca massacre (where 47 campesinos were gunned to death by the Peruvian armed forces in August 1985, the Cayara massacre of May 1988 (in which some thirty were killed and dozens "disappeared", and the summary execution of more than 200 inmates during the prison riots in Lurigancho, San Juan Bautista (El Frontón) and Santa Bárbara in 1986). According to an official inquiry, an estimated 1,600 forced disappearances took place during Garcia's presidency. Unlike Alberto Fujimori who was successfully tried and convicted of crimes against humanity (including slaughtering students en masse) and robbing the state treasury to pay for his childrens USA education (his daughter Keiko is running for president to pardon him--and she will win), Fujimori remains popular as the rightwing propaganda machine (papers such as El Comercio and La Industria, and "humorists" such as Felipe Carbonell) discounts the suffering of the people. In Puno children are dying from the cold, while Garcia sends his goon squads to the Amazon Province where they hurled children, babies, and women over cliffs, then claim they were attacked by spear-holding Amazonians (who were armed with clubs)--then burning their bodies in a manner similar to the Nazi ovens. The Argentine oil company (sponsored by Garcia's Argentine wife) that would move the locals from their home while the mining interests of the USA demands to strip the top soil away from the riches it hides only plays into the power-greedy hands of Garcia and his nefarious party.

Alberto Pizango is a modern hero. Garcia and his gang of goons will go down in history like their counterpart: the German Nazis. Pizango alone speaks for the disenfranchised, those Amazonians who are being butchered by a vile military machine pushed by a pathetic Congress out of touch with the people, for once elected to Congress that person has a congressional pension for life and thus has attracted and seated volleyball players, whores, and the children of dictators. Today the “police” use unmasked force killing hundreds (if not thousands) of Amazonians, throwing the bodies they do not burn over cliffs that cannot be scaled, while pouring acid on others, then claiming they are the victims. But those who died as police were barely adults—youths with uniforms but no training, and who believed that they were safe because of the madman in the presidential palace.