You made some good points in your post but it is unfortunate that you ended
it up in a hypersensitive subjective note when you state:
<<BTW, I find it useful to avoid personal references on Pen-l. One really
can't presume (and it doesn't advance the discussion or future action)
people's motives, background, or whether they "haven't done their
homework"...You never know :-) >>
Your comment is unfair because 1-I wasn't trying to be 'personal" in the
sense of an individual snide or the presumption of motives. 2- Because it is
logically impossible not to make a "personal reference" when addressing to
subjective statements as when you expressed that you don't know what Humala's
programs are about. Now given the abundant information on Humala in the last
month, ranging from BBC to Juan Forero in the NYT, not mention sites like Open
Democracy, it follows logically to conclude that somebody's lack of
information about this matter has to be due to "lack of homework". That's all.
No
reason for you to sit up in a condescending moral high chair.
Finally, let me emphasize that the nationalist road has taken the number one
political priority in all of Latin America (except Colombia) after the
savage brutality inflicted by the IMF, American and European capital of late.
It
is a necessary first step in the recovery of economic growth in the region.
The resurgence of indigenous power is also due to the fact that one of the
objectives of neo-lib globalization was quickly achieved: the dissolution of
the
"national bourgeoisies" whose interests are now totally intertwined to those
of Wall St.
It is also culturally and politically important to non-European societies to
develop their autonomous social/thought independent of the traditional
Euro-centric canons from the right or the left. In this respect, the North-
American left, who is now extinct in terms of reach and political influence,
can
learn a lot from new successful movements in Latin America in terms of
reinvigoration trough practical and ideological innovation.
Cristobal Senior
