Forsworn, wild beasts and horrific gorditas
Carlos Alberto Montaner
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has written me a harsh letter. I do not recognize any authority to criticize their government acts. They do not have the fickle''apostates who abjured their own dreams.'' He says, only judge history. The letter is an acknowledgment to the sending of the return of the idiot who wrote a recent book Apuleius Plinio Mendoza, Alvaro Vargas Llosa and I, with a foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa. On the job - it takes ten years later, the subject and the formula of Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot - There is a short chapter on Correa where political opinion that this young, charismatic and with a considerable popular support, is an accomplished neo-populist, with a head full of nonsense, which is likely to drag his country towards disaster.
Actually, I can not complain. President Correa neither requests nor give quarter. A passerby who made an obscene gesture of disapproval had him arrested. The Ecuadorian journalists, in general, has called''wild beasts''by disclosing videos that compromise the integrity of some officials, while Sandra Ochoa, a respected journalist who made an awkward question, as was his duty to inform , called it''appalling''chubby. Given such language, be called an apostate is almost a sweet compliment. However, most alarming is not that inappropriate use of vocabulary in a leader who constantly claimed the majesty of the presidency, but the bottom line: Mr. Correa believes that changing your mind is a reprehensible fact. There have discovered that this is exactly what distinguishes reasonable people, intelligent beings dogmatic.
apostate What is disqualify that comes to mind of a manifesto signed by Mario Vargas Llosa and other intellectuals and artists in Viña del Mar, Chile, in 1969, when Mario sustained ideas contrary to economic freedom and political, ideological idiocy and moral failure which was waged by reading valuable, because of the painful observation of Cuban slaughterhouse, and the unconcealed horror of all the gulags caused by Marxism-Leninism and other related disasters supported by the Soviets. Simply put, Mario, Plinio, Carlos Rangel, Octavio Paz and other lucid intellectuals who in his youth believed in the virtues of socialism, when they learned about fruit had the courage to renounce the error, publicly renounce, denounce the crimes committed and placed next to the victims. According to President Correa, Vargas Llosa had to remain faithful to the mistake, perhaps because it seemed to rectify it is a sign of weakness of character or a dark form of treason.
Perhaps Mr Correa should watch closely the example of his neighbor Alan Garcia. In 1985, at age 36, was elected president. It was, like him, young, charismatic, bright, sang and played guitar, and had obtained a doctorate in Europe, La Sorbonne Paris. He also had a head full of ideas, only the wrong ones. Was statist and believed very Keynesian in the virtues of public spending to modulate the economy, wary of the market and private enterprise, he tried to nationalize the bank, and blamed the International Monetary Fund to blame for all ills afflicting the country . It was, however, a formal Democrat: scrupulously respected the freedom of the press, did not support the illegal expulsion of half the Congress, not condemned or tried to manipulate the judiciary when he was adverse judgments. However, the results of his first government were terrible: the onset of the hyperinflation increased poverty, investment fell sharply and capital fled, while the Shining Path Maoist guerrillas set fire to the country. Alan left the government entirely discredited. Three quarters of society hated him.
But in 2006, Garcia returned to power. His compatriots gave him a second chance. Why? Because he promised not to repeat the mistakes of his first term, because it was an extraordinary candidate and, above all, because his opponent was Ollanta Humala, the local version of Hugo Chavez, and most voters did not want to get back into an authoritarian mess and communistic as they met during the dictatorship Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975), the precursor of Hugo Chavez, a broadsword disaster that destroyed the country's economy and democratic institutions sprayed.
Alan Garcia kept his promise. Scrapped its socialist fantasies tired of youth and began to rule with the wisdom of any serious and mature leader of the first world. Result? In Peru's economy grows at annual rate of 8%, poverty and unemployment down, and for the first time in its history, the country identifies an amazing phenomenon: the Ecuadorian capital across the border in the direction of Lima. It's a shame that President Correa not believe in the virtues of humility intellectual and rectification of errors. I fear that all Ecuadorians will pay dearly for this disturbing feature of his character.
July 8, 2007 Taken www.firmaspress.com
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