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Peru: Prime Minister criticizes Humala's support of Venezuelan TV channel shutdown

(LIP-jl) -- Peruvian Prime Minister Jorge Del Castillo strongly criticized Peruvian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Ollanta Humala for supporting the controversial shutdown of Venezuela's RCTV television channel and stated that he probably would have done the same had he won the presidency.

"His support of the Venezuelan issue clearly shows that he would have done the same thing had he won last year's presidential election," Del Castillo stated on last night's Peruvian news program Cuarto Poder.

"Had he won the presidency, you two would have been replaced by a pair of retired army captains or commanders," he told the program's hosts.

The prime minister called the closing of RCTV a sign of a dictatorship.

"They close the channel one day and then threaten to close another on the following day. What is next? That is how dictatorships work. This happened recently in Peru (referring to former President Alberto Fujimori), but fortunately for the country, democracy has been reestablished. I hope that never happens in our country again," he said while also mentioning that current President Alan Garcia would never resort to such tactics because of his strong belief in democracy.

"We are democrats. We believe in freedom of expression and our country could never be anything else that doesn't respect it," declared Del Castillo.

Humala, who narrowly lost last year's election to Alan Garcia, has long been linked to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and has publicly declared his fondness of the South American president's governing style and ideologies.

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# Jason W. Smith, Ph.D. says :
4 June, 2007 [ 16:45 ]

As has been pointed out in the US Press recently, had RCTV been in the USA and performed the outright sedition it performed in its active participation to overthrow the constitutionally elected government of the nation in which it sits, these guys would have been locked up in a federal prison within MINUTES of their sedition-subversion-treason (working with gringoism).
They are lucky at RCTV they weren't shot.
The comprador regime of Alan Garcia is worried that they may be the next target of the wrath of the people of South America. They should be worried. The Garcia Gang's days are numbered.
Hopefully, this time around Peru  will get a Chavez instead of a Morales-Bermudez or a Garcia.

# Peter Wills says :
5 June, 2007 [ 00:39 ]

Jason W. Smith Ph.D- You sir are a moron. End communication.

# Fred says :
5 June, 2007 [ 07:57 ]

Don’t worry about Jason W. Smith... he is another fool that hasn’t learned a thing from world history and he is pompous enough to think that communism or other oppressive form of controlling the masses would actually work should he be running the ship.

 

I guess he conveniently forgot the part where the communist ideology is considered responsible for more than 100 million murders (for comparison purposes, that’s about half of those killed in the two world wars combined).  Every single communist regime throughout history has been defined by the wholesale slaughtering of human freedoms and human life. In the western hemisphere, the traditions of property rights and the rule of law are too strong and communism will never take hold.

 

Wake up Jason. Communism has never been the product of popular demand, anywhere. It has always been a top-down revolution imposed by a small minority, thus the typical ruling despotically and violently. Do us a favor and go away.

# Phillip says :
10 August, 2008 [ 19:24 ]

Arriba Hugo Chavez Arriba